Tyan Tiger MP 2460 won't post

[DroppedAtBirth]

I need help..

I just got my case in and put everything together last night and couldn't get my machine to Post. It powers up but never turns on the screen and after about 10 secs it just sits there. I removed everything except the cpu's, fans, ram, and agp video card. And it still won't post. I get no beep messages or anything.

 

[Mikendi]

Try it with one stick of RAM in DIMM slot# 1. Make sure all your front panel stuff is in the right place - go here to look for advice too:TigerMP Nirvana A lot of us are testing/running this board and posting there.

 

[bozo1]

-Remove system from case to ensure nothing is shorting.
-Try with 1 stick of RAM and make sure it is seating well. Some memory doesn't seem to seat all that well in that board.
-Make sure your jumpers are set correctly and the cable orientation is correct for your floppy and IDE cables. The manual that comes with the tiger is suck and pin1 orientation on the jumpers and cables weren't as the manual made them seem, at least for me.
-Clear CMOS.
-Put in video card, 1 stick of RAM. Leave your drives disconnected and see if it posts. (back to the pin1 orientation here)

 

[subhuman]

Our first Tiger simply stopped posting after a few days. It was one of the original rev1's. We RMA'd the board, the engineer at the shop tested it as well, and then they determined the board was a rev1 and wasn't posting (wow hehe). We have a rev3 and it's SO much better. But it could be a simple thing like RAM, try some of the other great suggestions above (ie: with 1 stick, etc).

 

[DroppedAtBirth]

finally got it to work. I had another tech friend of mine come by and we determined it was all ram related. So I went and bought a 256mb oem ecc ddr ram stick and tried it. Booted right up. So I figured bad ram.... right? Wrong. I thru the 1024 of kingston back in with the 256 and now I had 1.2g's of ram - and it posted....?? I took the 256 back out and it still worked. Reads out 1G ram and 2 processors.

But now I get a post beep code - 1 long and 3 short beeps right when I power up the system. It detect everything fine and work great but I still get this beep code. Any ideas??

 

[bozo1]

Looks like you still have memory problems. Those beep codes are memory related.

 

[DroppedAtBirth]

I found something last week about it but I don't remember where I found it. It was on a pdf file from either tyan or phoinex website. It says the 1-3 code had something to do with memory not being properly seated. I have tried the memory in all possible combination of slots 1-2 2-3 1-4 etc. and still get the same beep code. I also crammed the ram in harder than I would normaly be willing to push but still no luck. I am looking for that file again to see if I can further research the issue.

 

[bozo1]

Does it beep with the 256 stick you put in? If not, I'd say that board doesn't like the Kingston stuff.