- Jan 8, 2000
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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
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