I have same problem "ABIT POST code A7"

[soustek]

I wrote this message to ABIT tech. peoples:

Dear friends,

I have bought new motherboard ABIT IT7 and while booting there appeared POST code A7. I did not found it in the manual and I do not know what does it mean. If I has clear CMOS it solve the problem, but next day when I try to boot, the POST code appear again and beep and beep. Monitor have black screen and I have to clear CMOS again. I do not like clearing CMOS every day so I please you - help me!

Config. of my PC:
Pentium 4, 2.4MHz/533
2x DIMM DDR 512MB,PC266(2100),VIKING,CL2
2x Maxtor 6L060J3 60GB D740X UATA 133,7200 ot/min.
1x 3D Blaster GeForce4 Titanium 4400 128MB DDR TVout
1x Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum (10K2+2x1394+Internal Drive Bay)

...... but no reply recieved.

I found some interesting information about POST code A7 on this page - http://www.genitech.com.au/LIBRARY/TechSupport/InfoBits/post_codes.htm

There are some informations about A7 POST Code:
NMI and parity enabled. Going to do any initialization required before giving control to optional ROM at E000.

What does NMI mean?

thanks for your advice
Pavel

 

[Buz2b]

NMI means "Non-Maskable-Interrupt". Don't ask me to explain, I just finds em. From the looks of it, I'd say you have a memory problem. Not sure if it is a BIOS setting or the RAM itself. Do you have ECC selected in the BIOS and are not using ECC memory? Guessing here but I will provide a couple of links for you to look at. In the meantime, I'd test new RAM and/or check the BIOS settings very carefully. You might try setting it to "default" or "failsafe" settings and see if the problem still occurs.

First Link

Second Link--Read this one first!!