Vince Maskeeper
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Building a HTPC... Today the power supply showed up, as well as my case, video card, and hard drive. I had the MOBO and processor for a week or two (Epox ep-8kha+ and the Athlon XP 1600), and so away I went.
Mobo, processor, Radeon 32 DDR LE video, 2 sticks of crucial 256 2100 DDR ram...
The first power on, I got video and the memory test, I couldn't get the keyboard to work, and eventually got a blank screen. No hard drive or other drives were connected, so I figured the screen was a result of lack of anything to boot to...
Tried to restart, and have not gotten video since then.
Nada. Nothing. Blank screen.
Board powers up, everything comes on, but no beeps and no video. The LED reads FF, and sits there.
I tried connecting the hard drive, just to see if that changed anything, nada.
Tried re-seating video card, nada.
Tried swapping ram around, removing ram, going with one stick, nada.
Tried re-seating the processor, nada.
Changed the jumper from 100 host clock speed to 133 (which I think it should be 133 with Athlon XP 1600 and 2100 DDR ram), nada.
I'm waiting on a friend to show up with different AGP and PCI video cards so I can test to see if it's the card. It did work the first time, but never since.
I did find this:
http://www.overclockers.com/tips710/
But it sounds like the same thing, only they could get it to work by killing the power supply and restarting, which hasn't worked for me (I have unplugged the thing for 45 minutes and still nothing!)
Thought maybe someone might have an idea to try before I have to send this board back! I think FF on LED means it's booting - but unsure.
-Vince
Mobo, processor, Radeon 32 DDR LE video, 2 sticks of crucial 256 2100 DDR ram...
The first power on, I got video and the memory test, I couldn't get the keyboard to work, and eventually got a blank screen. No hard drive or other drives were connected, so I figured the screen was a result of lack of anything to boot to...
Tried to restart, and have not gotten video since then.
Nada. Nothing. Blank screen.
Board powers up, everything comes on, but no beeps and no video. The LED reads FF, and sits there.
I tried connecting the hard drive, just to see if that changed anything, nada.
Tried re-seating video card, nada.
Tried swapping ram around, removing ram, going with one stick, nada.
Tried re-seating the processor, nada.
Changed the jumper from 100 host clock speed to 133 (which I think it should be 133 with Athlon XP 1600 and 2100 DDR ram), nada.
I'm waiting on a friend to show up with different AGP and PCI video cards so I can test to see if it's the card. It did work the first time, but never since.
I did find this:
http://www.overclockers.com/tips710/
But it sounds like the same thing, only they could get it to work by killing the power supply and restarting, which hasn't worked for me (I have unplugged the thing for 45 minutes and still nothing!)
Thought maybe someone might have an idea to try before I have to send this board back! I think FF on LED means it's booting - but unsure.
-Vince