You will probably need to borrow another CPU to try. This will determine if the board runs at all, then attempt to go up in speed. Bruce. B&T Electronics 139 Margaret St Sarnia Ontario Canada N7T 2Y3 (519) 344-1850 btied (at) sympatico.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary McCartney" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 9:54 AM Subject: [TechAssist] ASUS A7V133 AMD Athlon motherboard problem > > I have a problem with an ASUS A7V133 motherboard. This board is > for AMD Athlons, Athlon XP's and Durons. > > I am trying to run an Athlon XP2000+ on the board, which it is supposed > to support with a BIOS update. I can't update the bios because the > board freezes before the POST is through, so it won't read a floppy > disk, IDE drive, or even a bootable SCSI cd rom with the SCSI card set > up as a boot device with its own bios. > > I don't have a slower AMD chip to try on the board, although I have it > running at 1250 Mhz rather than 1400 Mhz it is made for. I can't get it > to boot on slower settings. If I could somehow get the BIOS upgraded, > maybe this 2000+ chip would work, if that is my problem, but I'm not > totally convinced that really is my problem. During POST, the SCSI bios > comes up and says that it detects a bootable CD disc in the CD rom > drive, but it still freezes after that. > > I have gone into the BIOS and disabled all floppy and IDE ports, and I > have removed everything from the computer but the video card, which I > have tried different ones. I have a 400W power supply meant for AMD > chips pushing this mother. I have also removed the battery from the CMOS > in case that was corrupted. Reinstalled and same problem exists. I have > tried different RAM but I am basically using a 256 meg Crucial strip, > 133 Mhz SD ram. I've checked the board jumpers and that seems to be ok. > > Do you have any ideas? I can't figure out what could be wrong when the > system sees a bootable cd in the drive but still won't get through the > POST to start booting. A corrupt eeprom runs through my mind but don't > know how to solve that other than to order a new one but that isn't > gonna happen because I would get a different board first. I got this > board at an auction cheap and it looked new, no dust but I could tell > that it had marks from the mounting screws being tightened down, so it > appears someone had this board installed at some point. maybe they burnt > it by overclocking? > -- > > Thanks for any suggestions, and yes a new board is on my mind. > > > Gary McCartney > > McCartney Electronics > 7134 Fife Rd, RR 7 > Guelph Ontario Canada N1H 6J4 > Fax: (519)821-1530 > email: gary (at) number63.ca > > ------------------------------------------ > Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: > http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html > ------------------------------------------ > To REMOVE your email address, click here: > http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html > To CHANGE your email address, click here: > http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html > ------------------------------------------ Submit A Repair Tip For Everyone Here: http://www.tech-assist.org/secure/tip/main.html ------------------------------------------ To REMOVE your email address, click here: http://www.tech-assist.org/unsubb.html To CHANGE your email address, click here: http://www.techassist.net/forms/change.html