I'm about ready to toss this bloody thing out the window.
Ok here's the problems in order I discovered them.
The computer was freezing and unfreezing at random intervals, so I checked the cooling and put a better heatsink on the Duron CPU this seemed to fix the problem for a while
After a few months the same problem came back, I checked the heatsink and the temperature it was running at, and found it was normal, so I went and got some new ram, a newer video card and Network card, but still the problem persisted. I then took the computer totally apart to make sure there was nothing grounding it out. This is when I discovered the 3VSBSLT jumper pin were bent and the jumper cap was missing, so using a pair of needle nose pliers I straightened the pins and put a jumper cap in the default position.
After all this the problem sill remains, so I figure it might be the CPU so I go get a Tbird out of another working machine and replace the Duron with it To my surprise the Motherboard won't even POST with the thunderbird in it, I yank out all the memory and expansion cards and remove all the IDE connection, and double check the speaker, but with the Tbird installed heatsink and all the board is dead, I double check to make sure its in jumper free mode which it is, now extremely pissed figuring I've fried a Tbird processor, I decided to put the duron back in.. Power it up and low and behold I get the error codes I was expecting. So I take the Tbird CPU back to the computer I took it from, reinstall it and the machine boots flawlessly, so figuring what the heck I take a Tbird out of another computer, and put in in the A7V133 replacing the Duron, and again the Motherboard will not post.
The duron is a Socket A 700MHZ chip
The 2 Tbirds are 900MHZ Socket A Chips
The A7V133 motherboard is revision 1.04
A7V133 BIOS is 1007
I'm really at a loss here what to do.
The A7V133 with the Tbird in it does not Post, and no beep error messages
I wish I had a Port 80 PCI card..
Any Useful insight anyone?
Ok here's the problems in order I discovered them.
The computer was freezing and unfreezing at random intervals, so I checked the cooling and put a better heatsink on the Duron CPU this seemed to fix the problem for a while
After a few months the same problem came back, I checked the heatsink and the temperature it was running at, and found it was normal, so I went and got some new ram, a newer video card and Network card, but still the problem persisted. I then took the computer totally apart to make sure there was nothing grounding it out. This is when I discovered the 3VSBSLT jumper pin were bent and the jumper cap was missing, so using a pair of needle nose pliers I straightened the pins and put a jumper cap in the default position.
After all this the problem sill remains, so I figure it might be the CPU so I go get a Tbird out of another working machine and replace the Duron with it To my surprise the Motherboard won't even POST with the thunderbird in it, I yank out all the memory and expansion cards and remove all the IDE connection, and double check the speaker, but with the Tbird installed heatsink and all the board is dead, I double check to make sure its in jumper free mode which it is, now extremely pissed figuring I've fried a Tbird processor, I decided to put the duron back in.. Power it up and low and behold I get the error codes I was expecting. So I take the Tbird CPU back to the computer I took it from, reinstall it and the machine boots flawlessly, so figuring what the heck I take a Tbird out of another computer, and put in in the A7V133 replacing the Duron, and again the Motherboard will not post.
The duron is a Socket A 700MHZ chip
The 2 Tbirds are 900MHZ Socket A Chips
The A7V133 motherboard is revision 1.04
A7V133 BIOS is 1007
I'm really at a loss here what to do.
The A7V133 with the Tbird in it does not Post, and no beep error messages
I wish I had a Port 80 PCI card..
Any Useful insight anyone?
I had a problem with a mouse that would not allow some boards to boot but some others would... Strange stuff...? Gotta go throught the number so to speak...
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