Dead Intel 815 board? Please help

[Fagetool]

the Intel D815EPEA2 board that i ordered seems to be DEAD. jebus*&&%@! popped it in, fan on the sink and AGP card and the little 'STR LED' in the middle of the board is working, but when i power it up with a 98SE startup disk in the floppy drive there is no activity, no floppy LED, no nothin'. black screen. somebody help me out & tell me whassup. all the stuff is hooked up properly, i have built a few AMDs so i know where everything goes. i took my time. besides, human error has been ruled out. do you have to say 'abracadabra' or something with these Intel boards when you power them up the first time or what? RMA time I guess. Poop.
oh yeah, it's not posting. there is no bios screen. just fans, the tiny 'STR LED', and i can hear the HDD running, then it stops and all i hear are the sounds of the heatsink fan and videocard fan. no video output ever during this process. you know how if you power it up with a disk in the A drive the little led on the drive will light up and it will start working? well it's not doing that. Thanks in advance for any help I might recieve. I have been to other forums, so far no one has the knowledge or cojones to answer my question.

 

[RustyNale]

I've had similar problems with the d815eea2 boards. I was trying to put a celeron 1ghz with pc133 128mb ram onto the board. Exact same problem as yours. Out of frustration I tried a Plll 700 in it and all's fine. Put the Celeron into another board and it's fine. The only thing I can come up with is the mobo didn't like the Celeron @ 100fsb with pc133 ram. (Even though the Plll showed up running at 100fsb also). I tried every combo you could name to get it to run--in the case, out of the case, with ram, without ram, with only cpu/hsf and ram...you name it. Reset the bios, discharged the battery with bios jumpers in reset config...nothing. Till I tried the Plll. Your guess...

What processor you running? What ram?

 

[Harvey]

It could be a defective or mis-inserted plugin card. Have you tried re-inserting all the cards? If anything is slightly off, it might register a short circuit that could shut down the power supply. It could be a defective power supply that can't deliver all the current your system needs.

Good luck.

 

[Fagetool]

No, its not the power supply. My 300W power supply runs fine. It runs my juice hungry Slot-A Athlon 1000 MHz with all eight fans, so why not a PIII Tualatin 1.2? The PIII is supposed to use less power. I looked up the processor at the Intel website, and got the exact Intel branded board that was recommended. It should be working, but alas it is not. The proc is a brand new retail boxed item just pulled from the shrink wrap, btw. All add in cards are inserted with care. Trust me, everything's in order. I believe it's RMA time. Last time I ever buy a white box special, I'll tell you that.

r8500
sblive
300w ps
512 crucial SDR(max supported)
the Intel board and proc already mentioned

i got this stuff to get away from the AMD/VIA debacle. Doh!!!!

 

[Harvey]

I think you're right. RMA time.

I love white boxes, but only when I buy locally, and my recourse access is nothing more than a ten minute drive. Logging off right now to head for the local swap meet.

 

[RalfHutter]

Fagetool - check out this "Supported Processor Chart" on Intels' site. Note that your board will only support Tualatin Celerons if the revision number is past a certain number. Maybe your board is too old and doesn't support the Tualatins?

Also per the chart, make sure the BIOS version is at least "P12" or newer. You can see the BIOS version on the POST screen (if you can ever get it to POST!). It's a long series of numbers (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.Pxx) and the version number is tagged right on the end.

 

[Fagetool]

tried once again, same behavior. went to the link you posted, read the #s on my board, they read- AA A45154-208 on the board itself, and the Intel driver CD is labeled A47727-002. dunno the BIOS revision, board won't POST.

these #s appear to be older than even the Celeron board revision #s posted on the Intel site. does that mean this board supports only PIIIs under 1.2 GHz? that's what the site apparently states. the disclaimer says only such and such board revision #s support certain procs, but that doesn't mean the board won't even POST with an unsupported proc, eh? BIOS screen should pop up and tell you about the unsupported proc. this board's BIOS doesn't even show up.

i'll have to talk to Intel about this, and what the appropriate recourse is. it's not like I can call the merchant where I bought the board and ask them to hand select a 9 digit board revision # off the stacks of white box items they have on their shelves. how the heck is the consumer supposed to make sure they get the proper revision #? goddamn stupid Intel.

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: Fagetool
tried once again, same behavior. went to the link you posted, read the #s on my board, they read- AA A45154-208 on the board itself, and the Intel driver CD is labeled A47727-002. dunno the BIOS revision, board won't POST.

these #s appear to be older than even the Celeron board revision #s posted on the Intel site. does that mean this board supports only PIIIs under 1.2 GHz? that's what the site apparently states. the disclaimer says only such and such board revision #s support certain procs, but that doesn't mean the board won't even POST with an unsupported proc, eh? BIOS screen should pop up and tell you about the unsupported proc. this board's BIOS doesn't even show up.

i'll have to talk to Intel about this, and what the appropriate recourse is. it's not like I can call the merchant where I bought the board and ask them to hand select a 9 digit board revision # off the stacks of white box items they have on their shelves. how the heck is the consumer supposed to make sure they get the proper revision #? goddamn stupid Intel.

by buying a prebuilt system

well if you want to get away from via, try the nforce chipset

 

[RalfHutter]

Originally posted by: Fagetool
tried once again, same behavior. went to the link you posted, read the #s on my board, they read- AA A45154-208 on the board itself, and the Intel driver CD is labeled A47727-002. dunno the BIOS revision, board won't POST.

these #s appear to be older than even the Celeron board revision #s posted on the Intel site. does that mean this board supports only PIIIs under 1.2 GHz? that's what the site apparently states. the disclaimer says only such and such board revision #s support certain procs, but that doesn't mean the board won't even POST with an unsupported proc, eh? BIOS screen should pop up and tell you about the unsupported proc. this board's BIOS doesn't even show up.

i'll have to talk to Intel about this, and what the appropriate recourse is. it's not like I can call the merchant where I bought the board and ask them to hand select a 9 digit board revision # off the stacks of white box items they have on their shelves. how the heck is the consumer supposed to make sure they get the proper revision #? goddamn stupid Intel.

Check out this Intel FAQ. See what it says about "Universal" support and which markings should be on the board? Also look at the Q&A right below that one:

"What happens if I plug in an unsupported FC-PGA processor into a D815EEA2 or D815EPEA2?
If you plug in an unsupported FC-PGA processor the below message will appear: (in the POST screen I suppose!)

The installed processor is not compatible with this Desktop Board
Please power down the system NOW
system halted?


....and you don't even get a POST! So I don't know if an unsupported board is even your problem, and until it POSTS there's no way to tell.

FWIW, I've had some odd problemswith a few Intel D815EEA2LU MoBos myself: no POST, board starts up in "Sleep Mode", unsupported processor messages. I've fixed ALL that by putting in a PIII (which always boots up fine) and flashing the BIOS to the latest version, then reinstalling the Tualeron which then works fine!?!? FWIW.......

I've also used 2 Asus Tusl2-C boards that have worked perfect with Tualerons, no fscking around was needed to get them running right.

Weird sh*t just with Intel S370 boards and Tualerons?? I dunno. I've built dozens of P4 Northwood systems on retail Intel boards with zero problems.