MSI kt7 Pro2a/900 tbird problem, please help!!

[briddle]

Ok, I went to a show with a friend and he bought this board and chip with a stock cooler and the person put it together and put a stick of 128 mb pc133 in it. Sold it with the case, 300 watt ps, cd-rom, modem, 16mb agp card, 20 gb ibm deskstar 7200/100 hdd and floppy.

I have assembled with this board before so I took it home and mounted in the case and hooked it up. I put a 4 mb pci virge card in it and booted it up. It came up no problem and I fdisked and starting formatting the hdd. I came back to a grey screen 2 hours later. I rebooted and same. The led's showed red, green, red, red (0100) saying memory problem. I switched chips and nothing, I switched again and it started rebooting, but went to grey screen. Now all I get is grey screen. I can switch memory, even switched pci cards and slot and put in the agp card and still the same. When the power comes on the top light goes green then red and the the second light turns from red to green and that is it.


Help anyone??

 

[ZeRoSKiLL]

Do you have access to another socketA motherboard that you know works for sure?? Try the cpu and memory on that make sure they are ok.

 

[dman]

How about unplugging the power and resetting the CMOS via the jumper to clear the bios? Then, hook it back up. If it boots, go into the bios and set everything to failsafe defaults. Then see what you can do.

Sounds like the memory timings are too fast or the RAM is bad.

Could be the Heatsink is not making good contact with the CPU or is not adequate to cool it.

 

[briddle]

I do not have another socket A board to test with and I forgot to mention I had tried resetting the cmos and still no result. I tried other memory, but no result. I emailed the reseller and was told "make sure the power supply is set to 110" which I checked and set before I started this project. The gave me a RMA number and I gues I will be sending it back tomorrow unless I figure something out tonight!!

 

[Slooo]

I had a the same LED pattern problem a couple of weeks ago. It took a new cmos chip from MSI to correct my problem. They sent it no charge, just took a week.

When I had a pci video card in the system it would say the CMOS checksum was bad. When the agp video card was in, all you got was a blank screen.

Good Luck!

 

[briddle]

Oh, well looks like rma time.