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  • gingey
    mini MURCer
    • Sep 2004
    • 6

    #1

    Can't POST board, need suggestions

    Just got ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe board, mobile Athlon XP 2500, 512MB Geil PC3200 RAM, Powercolor Radeon 9600xt for system. Doesn't boot. I know the processor works with board, several others using it. ASUS support has been crappy. Anyone got suggestions?? Seems like a bad board to me.
  • schmosef
    Super MURCer
    • Dec 2002
    • 5813

    #2
    Do you get a beep code?
    If not, sometimes reseating the cpu or the video card does the trick.

    Is the power supply certified for AMD?
    P.S. You've been Spanked!

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    • gingey
      mini MURCer
      • Sep 2004
      • 6

      #3
      Power supply is certified. No beeps at all. Will try reseating CPU, tried video already

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      • gingey
        mini MURCer
        • Sep 2004
        • 6

        #4
        Reseating CPU didn't work either, any other suggestions?

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        • Dilitante1
          Administrator
          • Aug 1999
          • 1829

          #5
          back to basics, strip all out (including drive connectors) but vid and minimum amount of ram, see what happens
          Better to let one think you are a fool, than speak and prove it


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          • gingey
            mini MURCer
            • Sep 2004
            • 6

            #6
            Tried that, no good. Still nothing at all. System is powering up, fans coming on.
            CPU, memory, and video all work on other board.

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            • Wombat
              Super MURCer
              • Aug 2000
              • 9498

              #7
              CPU fan stays on? Usually if the CPU fan spins for a split second, that's a dead CPU.
              Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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              • gingey
                mini MURCer
                • Sep 2004
                • 6

                #8
                Fan runs fine. Am trying to find out if it is video card. Board needs 1.5V card only, and I think card is 1.5V, but can't find any documentation that says it is.

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                • Wombat
                  Super MURCer
                  • Aug 2000
                  • 9498

                  #9
                  What happens if you run without the video card? Then you should get beeps. 3 beeps, I think.
                  Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                  • Technoid
                    Super MURCer
                    • Sep 1999
                    • 7645

                    #10
                    do you have the LED light's for Power and HDD connected?

                    Try starting it once without those.
                    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

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                    • KeiFront
                      Super MURCer
                      • Sep 2001
                      • 2668

                      #11
                      Probably a dead mobo, had the same problem yesterday, a mate bought a brand new computer and it wouldn't start. We tried the most basic setup (mobo, CPU, Memory, PCI videocard) and it wouldn't start only the cpu fan spinned about a half second no beep even if we removed the videocard we didn't get any beeps.

                      We even tried another CPU because a dead CPU can cause the same symptoms but nothing helped.

                      A new mobo fixed the problem.
                      Main: Dual Xeon LV2.4Ghz@3.1Ghz | 3X21" | NVidia 6800 | 2Gb DDR | SCSI
                      Second: Dual PIII 1GHz | 21" Monitor | G200MMS + Quadro 2 Pro | 512MB ECC SDRAM | SCSI
                      Third: Apple G4 450Mhz | 21" Monitor | Radeon 8500 | 1,5Gb SDRAM | SCSI

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                      • Kurt
                        Super MURCer
                        • Feb 2000
                        • 1839

                        #12
                        Originally posted by gingey
                        Fan runs fine. Am trying to find out if it is video card. Board needs 1.5V card only, and I think card is 1.5V, but can't find any documentation that says it is.
                        Do you have other RAM?

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                        • gingey
                          mini MURCer
                          • Sep 2004
                          • 6

                          #13
                          Tried all suggestions posted, taking board back this morning. Hopefully is the board, if not, I don't know what I'll do.

                          Thanks to all for attempted help.

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