Help - think its a mobo problem

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I'm building a compter. I've got a soltek 865ProII-FGR mobo with a 3.0E p4 and a 6600GT. I don't think it is POSTing. It is like my moniter isn't getting any signal, it remains in switched off mode. I know the moniter works. I tried resetting CMOS, didn't do anything, tried resetting it by taking out bettery, didn't do anything. So I took the mobo out of he case and tried to run it on a cardboard box with just the MSI 6600GT AGP card, the p4 3.0E and heatsink, and the 2x mushkin 512 MB DDR400 ram (in slots 1 and 3 per mobo manual for dual channel). That didn't work either . I've got an MGE 450 watt psu.

All the fans work, CPU, VGA, system, so I know the power supply is working. the soltk board has a debug LED which gives me code FF - the manual says this is "The flash has been updated successfully. Make sure write disabled Disabled ATAPI hardware. Restore CPUID value back to register. Give control to F000 ROM at F000:FFF0h" This is pretty confusing to me, especially when the code is under the heading "The bootblock recovery code gets control whne the BIOS determines hat a BIOS recovery need to occur because the user has forced the update or the checksum is corrupt. The following table describes the type of checkpoints that may occur during the Bootblock recovery portion of the BIOS" and I'm thiniking I didn't force anyhting.

So all this leads me to believe the BIOS is somehow corrupted on my brand new mobo. any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

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oh and I did have the power swithc plugged in when the mobo was on carbboard but that is it. The lack of video signal amkes me suspicious of the MSI VGA card but the fan was running on it, and the additional molex plugged in. The motherboard error code is most importnat I guess. And emailed soltek support on this but ther're on Chinese New Year till the 14th, lol.

 

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Try a new CMOS battery.

Failing that, disconnect everything from the mobo except the psu/cpu/case spkr/pwr sw and see what happens.

 

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yes, I try that it makes sense with the error code failing that I'm waiting for soltek's response and then probably RMAing it back to newegg. thanks. that is unless anyoen else has some suggestions

 

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ouch. RMA'd it, just got the new one and the same thing is happening. This is not cool. Guess I have to figure out how I'll find some hardware to test the CPU with.

 

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wow. I am retarded. the psu was stuck inbetween 115 and 230. If u are getting this code right at start up - no delay on a soltek u need to check ur power supply. specifically make sure it is set for the right voltage. 115 in the US.