SN95G5V3 Will not Post

[Gillbot]

I installed a new Athlon 64 3500+ from Newegg, Infineon 2x256MB PC3200 DDR Ram from my Shuttle SN45Gv2 and I tried two different video cards. A PCI ATi Rage II-c and an AGP Winfast A310 Ultra and the system does nothing. All fans power up to full speed but it will not post. I tried to clear CMOS but it made no change. I've tried 1 stick of ram in either slot and it made no change.

Any Ideas? I don?t have access to another A64 cpu to try. This ram works fine in my SN45Gv2 so I figure it SHOULD work in this one.

The only response I get from shuttle is to try another CPU. Any other ideas?

 

[amish]

if it wasn't skt 939 i'd drive over to dayton so you would test it out with my CPU.

bump for resolution.

 

[11Blade]

I had a similar issue with a SN45Gv3 with a AMD FX-55 and a XFX card
and also a ATI Radeon 9600Pro AGP card.

spent the better half of the day trying to figure it out. Remember there are no beeps
telling you if it posts or not.

Eventually I pulled everything out, unplugged the drives. Put in component by component
and nothing worked.

I thought maybe the CPU had come unseated in shipping. After 8 hours of nothing. I plugged the video card in and its power plug and voila the damn thing worked.

I can't tell you how, can't tell what I did, but I suspect they are quite fickle.

I don't know if it helps, but at least you have company in your misery

 

[Gillbot]

I've tried getting a bare system to boot, just mmobo/cpu/ram and vid card. I even tried my old PCI 4MB card to ensure it wasn't a video card issue. Nothing. I've tried three different sets of ram in every config imagineable so I doubt that is it and the shuttle tech agreed. One tech said it was a CPU issue while another said if it was a cpu issue, the red LED on the mobo should light up. I guess I'm going to have to either buy another CPU and hope to get lucky or RMA both.