HELP!!!! Asus A7N266-VM (nforce-1 Bios rev 1003) gets chassis error?

fkloster

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1) Just built an AMD system with this board and am having problems.....When I power up..., I automatically am sent to the bios setup screen with a white box in the center of the screen saying

"Message confirmation

The system intruded, chassis opened or tempered before.

OK?"

I hit ok then I can go into the bios but there is no option I can find for chassis intrusion header or anything

This rig consists of

1) Foxcon black mid tower case with AMD approved 300 watt PS (from New egg)
2) AMD 1700+ XP retail with retail cooler (35c)
3) 40x Lite on burner on secondary master
4) Seagate 40gb 7200 baracuda 4 primary master
5) 1.44 mb sony floppy
6) Asus A7N266-VM bios rev 1003
7) 2-256mb Dimms of Crucial PC-2100


I have unplugged everything from the mobo...powered on...and the same thing happens.

any idears?

 

fkloster

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Ummm, have I stumped the entire general hardware population including myself?
 

car3on

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take it back if you can, get a refund and get an a7s333, save yourself hours of woe, and thank the lord above that that is the extent of your dealings with the horrible thing:( I had one for a day(the shop had it for a week or two)and I had more trouble than I have ever encountered with a piece of hardware in my life. Tell me,
1. have you had any other trouble with it? particularly game and sound issues?
2. Are you using the onboard sound and vga?
3. Have you had any bios crashes when trying to disable onboard vga?

My curiosity exceeds in this matter, as I hated mine so much I took it back and sprung the extra $60au for the a7s333...So I am curious to hear what it has done for other peoples sanity, to assure myself I am not insane, so to speak;)
 

fkloster

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All the lights work (the motherboard green power light, the hdd light, the power light) all the drives fire up properly and are visible in the bios setup screen. The motherboard looks in good order.

I also tried clearing the cmos, but it did not help anything
 

Need4Speed

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Jumper the CHASSIS header this will fix the problem. It's in the same place it should be on the -E, near the 20-pin PANEL header in the corner.
 

Need4Speed

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The manual for the VM doesn't have that page...but the mobo does have that header. Minor hickup on the tech-manual peeps at asus :) That page is taken from the A7N266-E.
 

fkloster

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MUST......FIND......CHASSIS INTRUSION JUMPER THAT IS, FOR SOME REASON, UN-JUMPERED......& NOT IN THE DAMN MANUAL!!!
 

Bovinicus

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If you have some old motherboards lying around that are not in use, then steal a jumper from one of them and put it on the chasis intrusion jumper. All jumpers are pretty much the same (Except the cool ones from ABIT with grab tabs), and it should work.
 

Insane3D

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(Except the cool ones from ABIT with grab tabs)

Bah..That was Iwill who started that... :) I remember how cool I thought they were on my KK266-R back "in the day". ;) :)

Sorry I can't help you out fkloster, I don't buy Asus boards as a rule.. :( I hope you get it all worked out..
 

ssanches

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Originally posted by: Dug
I'd send it back. Its obviously AMD's fault. :):D;)

Is this flamebait?? :Q

Edit: On topic, flokster, like others have said, this message from your bios is nothing but the chassis intrusion detection feature that a few mobos have. And like others have said, there should definitely be a jumper on the mobo to disable it.
 

fkloster

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Edit: On topic, flokster, like others have said, this message from your bios is nothing but the chassis intrusion detection feature that a few mobos have. And like others have said, there should definitely be a jumper on the mobo to disable it.

Thank you Sanchez...now if I could just FIND IT!!!! I don't see it anywhere and its not in any documentation!!! Am I the only one of the 30 thousand AT'ers that own this nifty lil' board?
 

Need4Speed

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the reason you can't find is because you're at work and the mobo is at home...you need to calm down before i come over there and give you something to be excited about :)

Ye of little faith...

Edit: Hey Dusty...I think you may have to drive over there and fix this for him :)
 

Dug

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Edit: Hey Dusty...I think you may have to drive over there and fix this for him

Nah I won't fix it for him, I'll just draw a big red arrow on his motherboard that points to the pins.
:)
 

fkloster

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ok guys...thanks for the help..I found the jumper and jumped it. board works slick. i'm golden :)
 

networkman

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fkloster, you have to RTFM

Actually, in this case RTFM ain't enough - you have to pray to the motherboard gods too. ;)

I've got the same Asus A7N266-VM board here too, and with mine the 100 and 133fsb jumpers are mis-labeled both on the board AND in the manual! Took me a while to figure that one out.. quality control must've been on vacation when Asus did that run of boards and manuals.
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