Intel D865PERL no post

[An50]

I am building a new system and just received all the components. MB
is not posting. I have a 2.8C/800Mhz P4, pc3200 Micron memory.

There is no video, no post, and no beeps. Had the same problem with
an earlier system that I put togeather and wound up taking everything
apart, putting it back togeather and suddenly the board deceided to
wakeup - apparently mb was shorting out or something on startup.

But this baby doesn't want to wake up. The Manual is crap and I can
find the appropriate socket to plug in the interal speaker. Anyone
have any experiece with putting this togeather.

RMA'ing the motherboard is not something I'd prefer to resort to but
I'm running out of options. I got the board OEM from Centrix
International, http://www.centrix-intl.com/

The AGP card I'm using is a Geforce4 MX 420, don't see any potential
problems there...

 

[dg]

I had the same problem with my new D875PBZLK. Assemebled PC, the lights on
the motherboard lit up (onboard nic and such) but nothing happened upon
booting the machine. I was pissed at first thinking I could be weeks away
from a working system. I looked at the manual under troubleshooting and the
only suggestion was to reset cmos with the jumper, pull the battery for 10
minutes and then try again. It worked! The board has been great ever since
then. My guess is that they test these motherboards at the factory with a
certain processor/memory/etc. and when I assembled a system at home using
different hardware, the motherboard could not easily switch from one
configuration to the next without first resetting the cmos. Try it.

--Dan

 

[sdeyoreo]

I just built a D865PERL, no problems, but I couldn't find a spkr
connector either. AGP card also.

 

[Roy Smith]

I build with the 865PERLX and 2.8 P4, and Micron memory all the time. there
is no need to plug in the internal speaker, it works from the MB. When you
start up the machine, go to the Bios and recheck that everything is set
right. Every board I have used has had a different boot sequence for
instance. Also make sure you have the ram in the correct slots. The PERL
uses slots one and three if you have only two modules.