A7V8X POST issue

[zophar666]

OK, ready for this?

I have an Asus A7V8X motherboard I've had laying around for a few months. I purchased a Athlon XP 3000+ and 512MB DDR PC3200 (I wanted 2700 and they were out... wish I had waited)... so now, here's my issue.

Each time I boot, the computer won't POST. Upon rebooting, the bios gives me a message that the frequency was not set properly. Whether i choose 100X13, 133X13 or 166X13, the same thing happens. The only way I can force a boot is.. get this.. choose manual config, and then put the fsb up to 216, forcing an instant freeze. Upon rebooting it POSTS and in windows it thinks its... 133X13 = 1700. But windows does see it as an Athlon XP 3000+... sooo.... what the heck is going on?

And yes, I updated the BIOS today to 1014.. same problem.

My setup:

Athlon XP 3000+
Asus A7V8X
Antec 350 Watt PS
Radeon 8500 LE AGP 4X
512 MB DDR PC3200 SAMSUNG
soundblaster live

Any help would be appreciated before I go bonkers!

Brad Levicoff
zophar666@comcast.net

 

[Harvey]

Sounds like you're losing at least part of your CMOS setting. You could have a bad battery, or the CMOS jumper may be set in the wrong position.

If that isn't it, you may have to RMA the motherboard.

 

[CraigRT]

will the A7V8X even support an XP3000?

 

[zophar666]

The strangeness continues!

So this time, I set it to the proper settings (166 fsb, auto detect ram which, unfortunately, on this board is 333 if you're at 166 fsb, and 13x multiplier), saved, rebooted, hang, rebooted, and set it to 233 which froze the system... rebooted... now im at 166X13 and i'm in windows!

So it seems to me that no matter what i set it to, it won't post, but it remembers the setting, and if i force a crash in the bios, it posts. What the?1?!?!

Brad

 

[S4M33R]

EDIT: oops mistook the model number for another. was really tired last night :-\

 

[zophar666]

Well, I took out my network and firewire cards, since the board has it integrated and... voila. Fixed. What do you know, one of the cards were making my system hang. Don't know why... works for me. Seems perfect now after 4 reboots and no problems.

Brad

 

[Harvey]

Originally posted by: zophar666
Well, I took out my network and firewire cards, since the board has it integrated and... voila. Fixed. What do you know, one of the cards were making my system hang. Don't know why... works for me.

Unless you had the onboards disabled in the CMOS, the added NIC and firewire cards would conflict with the onboards since they would be attempting to use the same resources.