MSI K7T Turbo2 won't boot ... almost tried everything!

[imported_xpat]

Hi all,

I'm having problem with a board I bought: the MSI K7T Turbo2. Apparently, it was working when shipped, but it could have gotten damaged for all anyone knows. Note, it was packaged well and the outer box looks in perfect condition, so unless it got shaken to death, I'm not sure what's wrong.

I tested the MSI board with two CPUs. One was an older 1GHz Tbird (100 bus) and the other was my newer chip (Palomino I'm guessing, it's 1800XP+ and 133 bus). I believe the board is supposed to accept anything up to a 2600XP+. When I put the Tbird in, the board got up to testing the VGA bios according to the D-bracket (that's lights 1,3 as green and lights 2,4 as red) but it was all red with the 1800XP+ chip.

No matter what I try, I can't get the onboard speaker to beep or the case speaker. There's nothing coming out from the onboard audio. Also tried three sticks of RAM, two working on other boards, one that came with the MSI board. Tried booting with HDD/CD/floppy plugged in, different video cards (PCI and AGP) and I can't get anywhere.

So far, I think I've tried pretty much everything to get it running: different RAM, CPU, PSU, video card, reset CMOS, standing on my head, called MSI tech support and let them take us through steps to flash the bios (how can we flash it if we can't turn it on??? I'm not calling them again). It's possible the board got damaged during transport or maybe I just have no clue about computers.

At this point, I'm starting to think the board is dead, but I still won't give up. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

 

[NuNuNYC]

Sounds like you're using all the right hardware, as the MSI K7T Turbo2 supports K7 chips (Tbirds, XP series, etc). If you know all your hardware that you're using are from working computers, test again with only the motherboard, video card and RAM. Unplug hard drives, optical drives (CD-ROM, DVD, floppy drives), take out all PCI cards. Make sure you have the right connection into the motherboard for the PC Speaker. If you don't get a POST, most likely, your motherboard is DOA and you have to RMA. Just tell them you tested with a working CPU/RAM and received no POST. Tell them you want to RMA (as long as your still under warranty) and they shouldn't give you a problem. If they do, tell them these BIOS flashes, trying other hardware, etc is all bullshit and you know what you're doing. Still getting a hard time? Gimme $50 and your contact info, and I'll personally contact them and bitch at them for you and make sure you get that RMA'ed board.