HELP! No video on P4C800-E

[M34speed]

So I have two P4C800-E Boards, two 3.2G Extreme edition P4s, and two sets of Corsair XMS PRO (512X2) PC4000...and two Matrox Parahelia 256meg cards. When I use this setup..the video doesn't show up. The light might turn green for a slight second, but then it goes back to yellow. I tried this on BOTH of the P4C800-E boards I have. None of them get a video signal. When I put the SAME parts in a P4C800 Deluxe (known good board) and it booted without a problem. Is there someting I'm missing? In all setups I used have a 350W power supply.

The only mistake I made when setting up both of these boards in the beginning was that I had 10 screws installed instead of 9. I had a screw in the hole RIGHT under the video card. It looks just the same as all the others...a standard grounding screw. Then I read in the manual that there are only supposed to be 9 screws installed. Could their be something else? Did I ruin it with that extra screw? I just find it so hard to believe that I got two bad boards

Any help is greatly appreciated.

James

 

[mechBgon]

You're not simply forgetting to plug in the ATX12V power plug or anything, are you? Assuming you did remember that, next questions are:

1) what brand and model of 350W power supply was used, exactly?

2) look at the motherboard's BIOS chip and tell me what the number is on the little sticker that should be stuck to the top of the chip.

Welcome to the Forums, hope we can help you out

 

[AristoV300]

BTW nice stuff you got there. Yeah make sure that you plugged in both plugs into the mobo from the PSU. Not to sure about the screws. With all that stuff a 350w power supply is going to kill you in the long haul. With those $1000 chips you got you should have bought a like a 465w PSU.

 

[M34speed]

whoops. I was wrong. The power supply is a 300 watt.

Both of the setups are going in these cases with the included power supply: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=56-999-310&depa=1

yeah Its really cool that I get to work with some high quality equipment. For storage these computers are going to have 2 250gig WD SATA drives on a Raid 0 and a 10k RPM raptor drive for OS. These machines should really fly.

To answer the bios sticker question: PPCE7
1014
D977
GM Y2
Thats exactly how its layed out on the sticker. I think thats what you wanted to know?

Thanks for the quick reply guys.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: M34speed
whoops. I was wrong. The power supply is a 300 watt.

Both of the setups are going in these cases with the included power supply: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=56-999-310&depa=1

yeah Its really cool that I get to work with some high quality equipment. For storage these computers are going to have 2 250gig WD SATA drives on a Raid 0 and a 10k RPM raptor drive for OS. These machines should really fly.

To answer the bios sticker question: PPCE7
1014
D977
GM Y2
Thats exactly how its layed out on the sticker. I think thats what you wanted to know?

Thanks for the quick reply guys.

Ok, I'm betting a donut that the problem is the Rev. 1014 BIOS that your boards came with. Throw a non-Extreme-Edition CPU into one of the new motherboards and I bet it'll fire right up. Then update to BIOS 1016 or later, which is required to support your EE CPUs. After that you should be ok, although if it were me I'd be using a little heftier power supply than 300W, even a really good 300W. Call me conservative, paranoid, etc, but I'd rather over-engineer it with a 400W+ name-brand PSU (Enermax, Fortron, Antec, PC Power & Cooling).

 

[M34speed]

Oh wow. I made another mistake

This is actually not an Extreme edition Processor.

Its this one: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-116-176&depa=0
I thought the E meant extreme Edition. sorry... I tried a 2.8Ghz 533mhzfsb with 1 meg cache in the same motherboard..and no luck? So now that I have the right processor do you still think that I just need a bios update? Or do you think it might be the motherboard? I dont have any NON 1 meg cache processors to test it that way.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: M34speed
Oh wow. I made another mistake

This is actually not an Extreme edition Processor.

Its this one: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-116-176&depa=0
I thought the E meant extreme Edition. sorry... I tried a 2.8Ghz 533mhzfsb with 1 meg cache in the same motherboard..and no luck? So now that I have the right processor do you still think that I just need a bios update? Or do you think it might be the motherboard? I dont have any NON 1 meg cache processors to test it that way.

Bummer, dude According to Asus's CPU-support thingie, you must have the 1016 BIOS to run a P4E too. Maybe buy the cheapest Celeron you can find, just to get the BIOSes updated with it, then put your P4 3.2E's back in there. You can always sell the Celeron in For Sale & Trade afterwards Hope that helps make sense out of what's going on.