gigabyte GA-7DPXDW

[AnimeKnight]

I bought a GA-7DPXDW, (dual athlon MP).

This is what I noticed when I opened the box up.
1) the back plate was wrong! doesn't fit with my motherboard at all I have the optional LAN which located on the bottom below built in sound where the backplate that came with had the opening for the optional LAN right below PS2
2) didn't come with the CD
3) their manual is horrible didn't even tell you about BIOs (I had to go to their site to download a different manual for it)
4) 4 of their defualt jumpers were not at their default setting according to the manual.

Anyhow with everthing in the system.. it won't even post didn't even give me the warning sound. My cd rom light is on but can't open the drive. My hard drives are not spinning.

Is there a way I can test the RAM? to see if its the ram?? even if its the ram it should have beeped right?



Dual Athlon MP 1900+
2x512 MB PC2100 Samsung Registered ECC
2x 80 GB Maxtors in onboard RAID (boards IDE 1)
ATI AIW 8500
Sony 40x12x48x on IDE 4
Antec TruePower 550 watts
(does not have floppy) going to see what it does with it (wont work with a floppy in either)

so if anyone has any solutions or a RMA # for gigabyte, it would help. the # on their site is to Taiwan (horrible).

The reason that I didn't return it.. is because I bought this from a fellow anandtecher and I wanna make sure it's the board before I return it..

thanks in advance

 

[BarMan]

You bought that off a fellow techer? well that sounds like
something that tacher may have done but I hope not... anywho...

First off take out everything in there and test only:

MB
Ram
CPU
Vid Card
and 1 HD (to the Primary IDE as master)

Make sure all jumpers are set nicely, such as the setting for the 133 bus on both cpus
and that all power connectors are firmly pressed in. Re-seat the ram and the CPUs
to make sure all those are connecting properly. (I had a problem like this and is was my
floppy drive power connector not connected properly, I screwed up and keep pressing
power to override my PSUs shutdown and the floppy started smooooookin'!)

Now try and turn the machine on and see what you get.
If it posts you're all set to go, let it boot and go into the bios and set the options
you want, save and shutdown. Add all the other stuff in and you're ready to go.

 

[AnimeKnight]

Yea.. I bought it off a fellow anandtecher.. But I like to give him the benefit of the doubt until I am sure it's the mother board.

Anyhow that's all I have in the system the basic configuration except I have 2 hard drives. But I will double check everything again.

Even if it's the floppy, or ram, or hdd it should have beeped right??

 

[BarMan]

yeah someting should have posted
but the reason it didn't post it because
there's something with the MB itself
OR all power connectors aren't connected
correctly OR there's not enough power
in the PSU (which we can pretty much count out)