133 FSB won't boot

[dave m]

We've just got an Asrock K7VT2 and Athlon XP2400+, put our existing 133 memory in (generic) and it hangs and it won't boot. We can hear (we think) it doing the memory check but only ever get a blank screen. It boots fine on 100FSB but CPU is reported (obviously) as running at 1500. The previous board only ran at 100 FSB so could the memory be to blame?

Thanks,

Dave

[VJ]

Perhaps far fetched, but can you boot without the memory ? I can imagine not much software will run, but shouldn't the initial boot work ?


Jörg

[Greebe]

nope, it won't boot without mem installed. It would fail the post check.

I'd go with the mem being the problem, have seen this issue before.

[VJ]

Ah, ok... (didn't know that)
But would you see something on the display ?


Jörg

[dave m]

Greebe, it was the memory, put in some 266 DDR memory (that I paid a fortune for in PC World this afternoon) and it booted up in 133 FSB no problems.

Thanks all!

Dave

[Kooldino]

Yeah, probably the memory. If you can't get ahold of diff RAM, try putting them on really lazy BIOS settings.

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by dave m
Greebe, it was the memory, put in some 266 DDR memory (that I paid a fortune for in PC World this afternoon) and it booted up in 133 FSB no problems.

Thanks all!

Dave

Whoa, simultaneous posts! Good stuff.

[dave m]

Doesn't it make you feel good to be proved right the very second you are returned to the thread

Interesting thought about the lazy BIOS settings, but now I've got the new memory in I'm sure you'll forgive me for not going back and experimenting with the old stuff

Dave

[Byock]

Originally posted by VJ
Ah, ok... (didn't know that)
But would you see something on the display ?


Jörg

you would think so, but no, you would get a bios beep code, but no display.

[Kooldino]

Originally posted by dave m
Doesn't it make you feel good to be proved right the very second you are returned to the thread

Interesting thought about the lazy BIOS settings, but now I've got the new memory in I'm sure you'll forgive me for not going back and experimenting with the old stuff

Dave

Forgiven. :-)

[VJ]

Originally posted by Byock
you would think so, but no, you would get a bios beep code, but no display.

Thanks!
(good to know if I run into memory problems )


Jörg