Crazy Boot Problem

[ZetaEpyon]

One of our computers in the office recently fried, so we are replacing the motherboard & processor with an ASUS TUSI-M and a Celeron 533. I am running into an issue in that when I hit the power button, the computer will not power up. Instead, it seems to be trying to repeatedly power on; this is evident because the power LED blinks, and when the floppy drive is hooked up, it also powers up partially and then keeps doing it. The CPU fan also seems to exhibit the same behavior.

Anyone have any ideas on what coule be causing this??

Thanks!

 

[LiLithTecH]

A Blinking Power LED usually means it is in SLEEP Mode.

A good start would be to unplug all Devices (drives, audio, usb) to see if the machine will Post.

 

[ZetaEpyon]

There is nothing plugged into the motherboard aside from power, the CPU, RAM, keyboard, and video.

No video displays whatsoever, though the display does seem to be initialized, as its LED changes from amber to green.

The power LED also blinks much more rapidly than any sleep mode I have seen.

 

[LiLithTecH]

That narrows the field down.

Is it a Retail Box CPU or OEM?

Have seen the CPU FAN not allowing the CPU to seat in Zif socket fully.

 

[ZetaEpyon]

It is an OEM Celeron from what I can tell. It is NOT a retail heatsink, I know that much.

I will try reseating the processor and post results back here.

 

[ZetaEpyon]

I found the issue. Looking through the documentation for the board revealed that it will only support a FC-PGA (Coppermine) or FC-PGA2 (Tualtin) processor. However, we had the older version of the Celeron 533, the normal PPGA one. I wish ASUS had been a bit more clear on the materials included, as you have to read into the documentation a bit more to find this out. On the box and such, it just says Celeron 533 - 750+

Oh well, thanks for the assistance.