I cant get this thing to work right

[Demo24]

Well I finally got it to post sorta. I moved the memory to the secound slot and now things show up on screen. The problem is I havent been able to get into BIOS yet. I also dont know what button to push. Bascially when I push the power button it takes a sec for the monitor to turn on. then it gives me a BIOS rom checklist error. It finds the keyboard and the it requests a floppy. so I gave it a floppy and now its wanting a system boot disk. What the heck is that? And how do I get around this? Im quite ready to get windows installed

 

[Demo24]

isnt a checksum error practically fatal?

 

[Tyson95]

What kind of RAM are you using? Do you have the floppy and molex connector plugged into the board?

 

[imported_slippy]

I thought this sort of thing only happened to the rushed to market a8n-sli deluxe.

 

[imported_BadKarma]

Can you list the specs of your rig?

I don't think it's a major problem. You just need to clear the CMOS. It's jumper number 2 (JP2) right next to the battery. When you reboot again, hit DEL to get into the BIOS.

All motherboards have their share of problems. That being said, the DFI is still a great board. But it still need a couple of kinks to be worked out. Hopefully, it'll be addressed in the next BIOS update.

 

[Demo24]

yeah I tried reseting the Cmos about a billion times. that never did work

but its ok now I got it to run What I had to do was take it to work and we ripped open a P4 and grabbed its 2 sticks fo DDR. Put them into the orange slots and WAM booted right up loaded optimised defaults and wham my memory works and I got XP installed

 

[imported_BadKarma]

:thumbsup::beer:

All we need now is the ATI X800XL.