K7S5A and unlocked duron

[seind]

Can this be done?

Cannot POST.
Fans working, just a series of small beeps (nothing in the manual or their site)
I used this cpu unlocked and did not erase the pencilwork.

 

[SonicTron]

Does it work after you wipe the penciling off the l1 bridges?

Also, theres no reason to unclock a chip via l1 bridges if you are using the K7S5A, unless you modded it for multiplier adjustement.

 

[seind]

The cpu was leftover from an upgrade. I had it unlocked and didnt erase the pencil. I just began to take it apart hope this is the problem.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

What is the number of beeps?

 

[seind]

was 2 short ones followed by a series (20 or so) of continues beeps. then stopped. tried it 5-6 times settings simple and all doubled checked. its a simple board anyway.

also i had pencil on the voltage bridges. maybe thats the problem?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

reseat your memory, the K7S5A often requires you to reseat the memory and AGP card 6-8 times to break in the slots. Also, if you haven't read through it yet, the K7S5A FAQs is the bible for this board! Good luck

 

[seind]

thanx for the link. will go through it.

i saw in here in an earlier post that overclocking could be done on this board so i left the bridges intact. maybe its the autosensing ability of the board untill you get to the bios. looking at it i have L1 and L7 bridges pencilled. L1 was the multiplier. will wipe the L7 and check

 

[DAPUNISHER]

The repeating beeps(AMI bios) usually means that it's a memory problem. As was stated before, the K7S5A dosen't support overclocking in the bios via multipliers so unlocking the L1's is futile. However, if you download the OCworkbench bios, it's allows overclocking via the FSB, I use CPUcool myself and it let me run a 1.4T-Bird@146.6fsb on my K7S5A, another useful feature is that it provides hardware monitoring