Need help with an ASUS A7N266-VM

[EdPep]

Hello. This is my first message to this forum, so I hope it is in the right place.
I'm assembling a computer for a friend, using an ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard, 256 m Mushkin memory, and an Athlon 1800+ processor. (sort of similar to the September SOHO system) I'm feeding the video out to an older Gateway 2000 monitor, which works on the original Gateway system.
When I turn things on, the fans whir nicely, the green power(?) light on the mobo lights, the monitor panmel light switches from yellow to green, indicating that some sort of video is sensed, I get one beep during POST, and the board shuts down. I'm suspecting the RAM got blown due to static electricity.
Any suggestions would be welcome.
Ed

 

[dbwillis]

Sorry to hear about the problems.

Make sure the heatsink is on the CPU nice and flat, sounds like the board powers up, CPU gets real hot and invokes the over temp protection.

Also maybe try resetting the CMOS by a paperclip on the solder pads where the manual says the jumper pins should be, then resetting the settings in the BIOS.

If all else fails, try and see if the board will boot up outside of the case......there might be a short somewhere when you have it screwed in.
Just place it on the box it came in and then try it that way.
Good luck!

 

[EdPep]

Thanks dbwillis!
I followed your suggestions and found that my friend had not taken the plastic covering off the heatsink compound on the H/S. After finishing that job, I hooked everything back up and boom! it booted. Next step is to install the drives and the O/S.
Thanks! This thread and several others in 'motherboards' helped very much.
Now, after getting my friend's working, I'm going to get some pasts for my own - to replace this old 500 mhz AMD.
Ed

 

[dbwillis]

Cool, glad it didnt burn out on ya (cpu that is)