Foxconn blackopps motherboard has A1 code on boot up keep having to turn off then restart until it boots finally have a 750 watt power sup. and a evga gtx 275 card took out card and installed 9800 gt and boots up all the time put 275 back in and A1 code on motherboard. 275 card works fine once comp. boots up .

Make sure you have your card installed correctly in your PCIe slot, it should hook in. You also have to hook up power supply. This card requires minimum 450 watt power supply and 600 watt power supply if using crossfire and dual mode. If your system meets these requirements, and you have card seated properly and hooked to power supply. You may have to enter your bios and dedicate the PCIe slot. I'm guessing the system will boot without card.

did you check the power sup plug on board and check the back of the power sup. some have a switch on them and check the cpu fan plug as well.you may also have a bad power sup. ok jim

If there is a disk in the cd device the bios is set up to boot up from there first. So if you have a xp OS disk in there that is what will happen . Remove the disk and it should boot from the hard drive if it is properly loaded.

reformat the HD and reinstall again the software..

Could be the battery in the motherboard, even in a brand new motherboard the battery can get bad, that's why they loose the bios settings and now is like you started for first time without the settings for booting, the date,
which one is the first bootable device etc.

Turn the PC on, when it is booting up, keep hitting "F8" until windows boot options come up, choose "Safe Mode" and then once it boots into safe mode fully, go to the start menu and choose shut down. After it shuts down, turn it back on and it should go back into normal mode. From now on, don't use Hibernate, its buggy and has been since XP.

you first of all check your power switch and then your power pack

I supposed you are using windows xp, put the Win XP cd in your cd drive and start your computer

boot on the cd drive, wait until the winxp finishes its copying

When asked if your want to install winxp or repair [R] choose repair by pressing R

wait till the command line and type: chkdsk /r

wiat until it finishes, it may take about 20 to 30 minutes..

reboot your pc

try upgrading/changing your switching power supply and make sure you plug in to your motherboard all the power requirement plugs it needs.

Without more detailed information, I really can't help you decipher that code... Since you don't know which specific Foxconn motherboard you're working with, it might be best if you contact Alienware Customer Support for detailed information:

http://support.alienware.com/Support_Pages/Support_Area.aspx

Good luck; let us know what you learn...