A7V8X-MX SE blue :(

[Nghi]

Hello,

I order components to put together a desktop last week. I put them
together last night, but was unable to get it to work.

The setup:
Asus A7V8X-MX SE
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2600
DDRAM 512M|PC-2700 990962 MUSHKIN Retail
Western Digital WD800JB harddrive
CASE ANTEC|SLK1650B 350W Retail

Using on-board video.

The green light on the motherboard lights up. When I push the power
button, the CPU fan, the case fan, and the power supply fan start up
and run, but the system would not POST. There is no beep from the
case speaker to point to a clue as to what goes wrong.

The front side bus switch on the motherboard is set to 100Mhz as
factory default. I don't think it matter since the frequency is
locked on the CPU anyhow. The manual says that it doesn't matter if
the CPU is locked.

I have put together a few system for my own uses and for friends.
This is the first time this happens to me. Help!

Thanks a bunch!!!

 

[Ed]

Hello,

I order components to put together a desktop last week. I put them
together last night, but was unable to get it to work.

The setup:
Asus A7V8X-MX SE
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2600
DDRAM 512M|PC-2700 990962 MUSHKIN Retail
Western Digital WD800JB harddrive
CASE ANTEC|SLK1650B 350W Retail

Using on-board video.

The green light on the motherboard lights up. When I push the power
button, the CPU fan, the case fan, and the power supply fan start up
and run, but the system would not POST. There is no beep from the
case speaker to point to a clue as to what goes wrong.

The front side bus switch on the motherboard is set to 100Mhz as
factory default. I don't think it matter since the frequency is
locked on the CPU anyhow. The manual says that it doesn't matter if
the CPU is locked.

I have put together a few system for my own uses and for friends.
This is the first time this happens to me. Help!

Thanks a bunch!!!

The bus freq is not locked on the CPU, a locked AMD CPU is one that has
it's multiplier locked, has nothing to do with the FSB setting.

Barton 2600+ uses 166MHz bus, but it should still run at 100MHz FSB.

Try with minimal parts plugged into the board, reset CMOS.

Ed