Soltek sl-75frn2-l not posting/booting

[meeshu]

Making a new "test" system with Soltek sl-75frn2-l motherboard, Athlon XP 2600+ cpu, Thermaltake 400W PSU, Gainward GeForce FX5200 128MB DDR video card.

Start system, fans spin up, one beep and then freeze! System will not proceed any further into boot procedure!? There is no display on monitor (no video signal).

Tried resetting BIOS (with jumper and removing battery); holding down Insert key on startup; swapping HDD and RAM; no good!

Cpu was supposed to have been tested by shop, so presumably the problem is either the motherboard or video card (I haven't tried swapping video card yet)?

Can anyone comment on this problem please.

Thank you.

 

[SexyLady]

If you can find out what BIOS that particula board run then u can look up the diagnostic Beeps as it will tell u what sort of problem that one either long or short beep emits.
On a very slim off chance it might be a bad connection on the mainboard for where the wire goes to the "power good" test (normaly and orange wire in the connection from PS to mainboard) as if there is a fault either from the PS on that wire or the connection to your mainboard then u will get fans and leds going, but no completed POST.

Enermax is normaly an excerlent choice of PS so if its a new one i cant see it being the PS itsself but more the mainboard, ram or CPU as they are the only things required for the POST, so even if your vid card is stuffed it will still POST ...

Personaly i would try swapping out the ram, as that can pose alot of problems esp if its a stick with slighty out of kilt access timings, some boards can be very very picky as to what ram they will run, as it can be all PC2700 but then different manafactures can make different access speeds and all hey have to do is be out by a nanosecond and it will prevent a machine from POST

Very Good Luck with it all, i hope u get it sorted soon

 

[meeshu]

Thanks for your post.

Finally fixed! Problem was the video card which was not quite seated properly (I thought it was seated first time, but apparently not).

BTW, on another system of mine (awhile back) with a faulty video card, the system would not POST and just freeze. That made me a bit suspicious of this new video card, so I swapped it for another card and the system booted! I then reinstalled the new video card more firmly and the new system seems to be working (whew!).