Abit kr7a-raid problems will not boot

[phenderson]

Abit kr7a-raid problems will not boot



Hey...

I just bought this motherboard from someone , who swares up and down that it worked fine...

No matter what I do when I power up the unit I get one long beep every 15 seconds, and nothing else.

I have AMD XP 1700 CPU

256 megs of DDR 266 PC2100 RAM from Compaq

Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti200 128meg Video Card


I have tried swapping out the AGP Video Card with a PCI video Card
Bought new memory
Cleared the CMOS
Removed the motherboard and placed it back in
Removed all of the connectors and Expansion Cards, except the Video and the LED headers
POwered down and up 6 times
removing and reseating CPU


The last thing I will try is installing an XP 2000 CPU which I am expecting in the mail today or tommorrow.

I have looked up the beep codes for the BIOS and one long beep means there is something wrong with the MB or there is something wrong with memory. Another site said that it could mean something is wrong with the Video card. But I have changed everything except the MB.

What would you say was wrong with this MB???

 

[BigDog1]

Man, that is a tough problem. Sounds like you have done everything right. All I can think of is to try all the components on a different motherboard and see if they work. I have an Abit KR7A-raid that is rock solid, and I am using it to write this message. It has an Athlon XP 1700.

I've had a couple of motherboards that used to work but after sitting for about a year no longer work. I recently wasted a whole day trying to get them going (swapping cards, memory, CPU's, power supplies) with no luck -- couldn't even get far enough to run the setup program. Strange. I even swapped the Lithium battery in from a working mobo and that didn't help.

The good news is you can pick up the same board, or even the raid version, for around $50 (I actually just bought a 2nd one for that amount). I like the raid version even though I am not running a raid array. I run C: hard drive on one raid channel, D: hard drive on the other, a DVD drive on a regular IDE (non-raid) channel, and a CDRW on the other. Performance is enhansed by not having optical drives on the same channel as hard disks. Also, but having the two optical drives on separate channels, you can do on-the-fly copying from the DVD drive to the CDRW drive (no spooling to the hard disk).

Good luck.

 

[phenderson]

As seen here...

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=29&threadid=968267

I was able to fix the problem, thanks for your answer.