Yep, make sure you unplug the power supply first. They also say toPatrick said:Hi all,
anyone know how to reset the bios on the latest revision of the A7N266-VM,
in the manual it shows a jumper but on my board there are only two solder
spots, would shorting them with a screw driver work?
Patrick
Yep, make sure you unplug the power supply first. They also say to
remove the battery but I never have and it has always worked fine.
When I boot all I get is the warning siren. I had swapped cpu from a
1600xp to a 2000+ XP cpu. Neither cpu will now run, have swapped cpus
into other boards and they both work fine. I presume the alarm is that
some setting is wrong but it seems the bios is not resetting OR
something else is not right. HELP!
Gene Puhl said:I had trouble with my daughter's board. I ended up removing the power cord
and battery and leaving overnight. It was OK in the morning.
If you have an early manual, the CPU FSB and RAM frequency jumper settings
are wrong in the manual...
Was this board working before and if so what change did you last makePatrick said:Well I did as you said and I also shorted the cmos with a paper clip and
left the board overnight and it still gives off the alarm sound. I presume I
have a dead board on my hands. The board is only a little over a month old,
how are Asus with RMA's?
Patrick
tomcas said:Was this board working before and if so what change did you last make
before the trouble began? It may be as simple as bad ram.
I give up. If you want here's some things to try:Patrick said:presume I
The board was running for last 3 weeks, I downgraded the cpu from an Athlon
2000+ xp to a 1600xp. That is when the machine refused to boot with the wee
waa siren. I then swapped the cpu's back and I still got same problem. I
have since, swapped through 3 different sticks of ram (ocz, geil and
generic) same problem. Have contacted tech support and they said it was a
cpu overheat error, I reseated the original cpu with new application of
thermal compound and same problem.
Waiting to see if they have any other advice.
My original instinct was that the different cpu's had different voltages and
so the bios had not detected properly, but after resetting cmos and also
replacing original cpu (2000+) and have still same problem, it seems the
board has other problems. All the components I have swapped into the board
are working fine in other machines.
Patrick
tomcas said:I give up. If you want here's some things to try:
Different Jumper settings + clearing cmos (like Gene said manual is wrong).
Different slot for ram.
Check cpu fan connection.