Vic Green wrote:
> Ed Durrant wrote:
>
>
>   
>> This could be caused by a short on any of the busses - most likely is 
>> the PCI bus - are all adapter cards correctly seated - are there any you 
>> can remove to get the system running - e.g. SCSI adapter, sound card etc.
>>
>> Also as you say, this could be corrupted CMOS settings - the motherboard 
>> manual will show you when a shorting link is to reset the CMOS back to 
>> default settings - try this as well.
>>
>> Cheers/2
>>
>> Ed.
>>     
>
> Ed,
> there are no add in cards installed right now. I had the place wheere I 
> purchased the mobo and CPU install the cpu for me,adter bending abouy 20 
> pins on another CPU (my eyesight doesn't work very well now).  It is 
> possable tyhat the CPU is faulty.I do hav another mobo here,an ASUS,but 
> while I can insert an amd 64 ok,these ones with more smaller  more 
> delecate pins are a little beyond me.
> I will try pulling yjhe battery and see what happens.
> yhanks.
> Vic Green
>
>
>
>   
Hi Vic,

  On any motherboard younger than 5 years, you shouldn't need to pull 
the battery, there will be a jumper you can move with the system off, 
then power the system on, wait 10 seconds, power off again, reset the 
jumper back to where it was and then restart again and the CMOS settings 
will have been reset.

 Another thought, do you hear any "beeps" from the system when you turn 
it on ? These can tell you what is wrong. Also  what RAM memory DIMMS do 
you have installed. Again you need to check the MB manual. Some systems 
run with a single DIMM other need them installed in pairs, in specific 
memory slots and not always adjacent slots. Also if you have more than 
one DIMM installed are they identical DIMMs ? One simple thing to look 
at is are all the DIMMs single or double sided - i.e. do they all have 
chips just on one side of the modules or all have chips on both sides of 
the modules ? Whereas in some systems you can mix DIMM types, often you 
can't. The memory should be the same speed as well and if this is a 
system where you need to install in pairs, the memory capacity of each 
DIMM needs to be the same. Then again one faulty (failed) RAM memory 
DIMM can also stop a system from booting as it can short the bus - in 
this case the memory bus.

Cheers/2

Ed.

Cheers/2

Ed.



 
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