motherboard or something else???

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Milan Puvaèa

Hey all...

I am having one really strange problem. So I have installed a new celeron
1.7Ghz on Asus P4B connected all well clicked computer to start and
nothing...cooler is running (on cpu and on power supply), but no bios sounds
or something which could tell me what's wrong. Green led on case is on, and
red one is flashing continously. CD rom led is also acting as red (ide) led.

I tried all what I have remembered can any one tell me what to do next???

Thanks
Milan
 
Hey all...

I am having one really strange problem. So I have installed a new celeron
1.7Ghz on Asus P4B connected all well clicked computer to start and
nothing...cooler is running (on cpu and on power supply), but no bios sounds
or something which could tell me what's wrong. Green led on case is on, and
red one is flashing continously. CD rom led is also acting as red (ide) led.

I tried all what I have remembered can any one tell me what to do next???

Thanks
Milan
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Pull power cord out of the system and then find and use the,"Clear
Cmos" jumper.You cannot fully clear the CMOS on an ATX powered system
with power to the board.Any old incorrect BIOS settings may be
preventing P.O.S.T.
HTH :)



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Shep© said:
Pull power cord out of the system and then find and use the,"Clear
Cmos" jumper.You cannot fully clear the CMOS on an ATX powered system
with power to the board.Any old incorrect BIOS settings may be
preventing P.O.S.T.
HTH :)
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no luck...I have used clr cmos (pull power cord, put jumper on clr cmos and
than pressed "start" button...nothing offcourse...when I removed jumper
there was the same sh.....)
hdd is starting but again nothing...I have changed IDE cable but again
nothing...

any other ideas??

thanks
Milan
 
no luck...I have used clr cmos (pull power cord, put jumper on clr cmos and
than pressed "start" button...nothing offcourse...when I removed jumper
there was the same sh.....)
hdd is starting but again nothing...I have changed IDE cable but again
nothing...

any other ideas??

thanks
Milan
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Some mother boards require the CPU fan wire to be on a specific mother
board header/socket?
Usually number 1.
If not the system detects this and prevents P.O.S.T to protect the
CPU.



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Milan Puvaèa said:
Hey all...

I am having one really strange problem. So I have installed a new celeron
1.7Ghz on Asus P4B connected all well clicked computer to start and
nothing...cooler is running (on cpu and on power supply), but no bios sounds
or something which could tell me what's wrong. Green led on case is on, and
red one is flashing continously. CD rom led is also acting as red (ide) led.

I tried all what I have remembered can any one tell me what to do next???

Thanks
Milan
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Try unpluggin all the EIDE cables in the system and see if it posts,
sometimes conflicts can prevent posting.
 
Chris Stolworthy said:
Try unpluggin all the EIDE cables in the system and see if it posts,
sometimes conflicts can prevent posting.
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I have unpluged all cables except cpu fan, power and LED wires and again
there is a same problem. I have replaced a bios battery but no luck. I have
pulled motherboard out of the case but nothing better happened.

Any other ideas?

Milan
 
Shep© said:
Some mother boards require the CPU fan wire to be on a specific mother
board header/socket?
Usually number 1.
If not the system detects this and prevents P.O.S.T to protect the
CPU.
Click to expand...
again nothing I have reconnected fan wire, to the headers for it but no
progress...

Milan
 
Milan Puvaèa said:
I have unpluged all cables except cpu fan, power and LED wires and again
there is a same problem. I have replaced a bios battery but no luck. I have
pulled motherboard out of the case but nothing better happened.

Any other ideas?

Milan
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Have you tried pulling the CPU out of the soocket and reseating it? Also
checking to see if the CPU heatsink is firmly and properly attached? The
heatsink *CAN* be installed backwards and this has prevented post in the
past. If you can I would try another CPU that you know is good and see if
it has the same problem.
 
Shep© said:
Try taking the board out of the system and see if it powers up.It may
be shorting to ground e.g the case?
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yes, I did it...but again zero points...now my computer looks like
this...motherboard is on carpet connected with power supply and with led's
from case. On motherboard is just cpu. I have tried to play with jumpers and
then I got my motherboard to talk :) It said that there is CPU failure test
(something like that). When I set i on jumper free mode everything went back
on sound of fans and light show with led's...
I did CLRCMOS couple times again but nothing. Is this problem just good for
taking motherboard to store where it came from?

Do you have any other ideas?

Thanks
Milan
 
yes, I did it...but again zero points...now my computer looks like
this...motherboard is on carpet connected with power supply and with led's
from case. On motherboard is just cpu. I have tried to play with jumpers and
then I got my motherboard to talk :) It said that there is CPU failure test
(something like that). When I set i on jumper free mode everything went back
on sound of fans and light show with led's...
I did CLRCMOS couple times again but nothing. Is this problem just good for
taking motherboard to store where it came from?

Do you have any other ideas?

Thanks
Milan
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It does sound like the CPU may be bad then :/



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Shep© said:
Can't think of much else unless the power supply is inadequate?
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I tested one power supply of 400W and one of 300W, same problem is
present...

Milan
 
Chris Stolworthy said:
Have you tried pulling the CPU out of the soocket and reseating it? Also
checking to see if the CPU heatsink is firmly and properly attached? The
heatsink *CAN* be installed backwards and this has prevented post in the
past. If you can I would try another CPU that you know is good and see if
it has the same problem.
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After four days dealing with this problem explained in this topic I have
found solution. Well, I must say that even now I am not sure what was the
problem, or what I did to fix it.
I did all things from this topic, and nothing helped. Than, I have put some
"glue" bettween CPU and fan (I can't remember how to say it on english, but
you know what I meen)...I reseated CPU several times. I double checked fan
on it. After that I have reset CMOS couple times (even bios battery was out
all night :) I placed some different VGA card (PCI) and played for a while
with RAM (I have 3 rows for it so I have changed places). Click....Computer
started...I can't describe how happy I was :)
Well I was curious so I tried to put another VGA card also PCI and put all
RAMs in place...no again lady sad "System failure CPU test"...I put out two
RAMs, but again lady was shouting. Switch Vga card...click...again it works
fine...

So as a conclusion I must say that this is some strange problem that ASUS
motherboards have (I found on Internet more about similar problem all was
with ASUS) but on their site there isn't a word about it. It's some kind of
problem related to CPU and fan, VGA card and/or RAM.

Thanks to Shep and Chris for help...

Milan
 
you know what I meen)...I reseated CPU several times. I double checked fan
on it. After that I have reset CMOS couple times (even bios battery was out
all night :) I placed some different VGA card (PCI) and played for a while
with RAM (I have 3 rows for it so I have changed places). Click....Computer
started...I can't describe how happy I was :)
Well I was curious so I tried to put another VGA card also PCI and put all
RAMs in place...no again lady sad "System failure CPU test"...I put out two
RAMs, but again lady was shouting. Switch Vga card...click...again it works
fine...

So as a conclusion I must say that this is some strange problem that ASUS
motherboards have (I found on Internet more about similar problem all was
with ASUS) but on their site there isn't a word about it. It's some kind of
problem related to CPU and fan, VGA card and/or RAM.

Thanks to Shep and Chris for help...

Milan
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Glad all is well :O)



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