Computer chaos ...

[kuk]

I'm really tired after a whole day of troubleshooting, so some spelling mistakes might come up. Here's the deal:

I bought 3 Soyo Dragon KT333 Lite + 3 Durons 1.2Ghz + 3 CoolerMaster HSF + 3 128MB DDR DIMMs, to try to put some organization on a family full of computer users. Aditionally, I had a working Abit NV7m with an AthlonXP 1800+ on a Thermaltake Volcano 7.

The first setup yesterday went ok ... the Soyo/Duron/CoolerMaster/128 worked great.
Then today I started building the other machines. The AthlonXP was coupled with another Soyo and the Volcano. This went OK too.

But now, the other two machines won't even start! Both have the same symptom: The motherboard receives power, the fans start working, but there's no VGA signal nor beep. I've checked everything: different power supplies, RAM modules, VGA cards (PCI and AGP), HSFs, cases and processors. I even ran the mobo on top of a ESD bag, not even being in contact with the case. The new Soyo and the old (and previously working) Abit appear to have the same problem ... and I'm completely out of ideas. More strangely, with Abit, when setting the jumper to clear the CMOS and trying to turn on, instead of doing nothing, it turns on!

I don't know if there's any solution to this ... I'm SOL because I can't RMA it back since I'm not even in the US. But I'm open for ideas ... 🙁

Kuk ...

 

[Navior]

hey man



sounds like your mobo jumper settings are screwed, the syptoms you discribe usually only happen when you have the jumper settings on the mother board set to speeds the cpu or mobo cant handle, check that your mobo jumpers arent set higher then 133 FBS, and the correct multiplyer is in use, check the mobo manuels for the correct settings for your processors🙂


Navior or you may have tried this already and are stil completly FOBARed

 

[OpalFrost98GT]

I agree...take the battery out for a while and def look for a fsb jumper and set it to safe mode...100mhz

 

[Quad]

your cmos might not be clearing properly
although this shouldn't happen with the clear cmos jumpers...it's still possible

as OpalFrost98GT suggested, remove the CMOS battery for a few minutes (disconnect the power from the wall first), the pop it back in and see if it worked.

if not, then unplug the computer again, take out the cmos battery, and let it sit for a few hours. this usually works for me (let the capacitors drain)