ASUS P2L97 motherboard boot-up problem

[goolu]

Hi,

I got one P2L97 motherboard from my friend with a 266MHz CPU. I
connect one function normal ATX power to motherboard power plug (no
power connected to HD, CD, Floppy yet). I plugged in one function
normal display card & sound card. When I pushed on PC's power on
button, nothing appeared on CRT monitor (not even hardware diagnosis
or memory count message). As I pushed the reset button, I heard "Boo
~~ Boo Boo Boo" sound (the first Boo sound being long one), nothing
output either. I 've tried using different workable CRT monitors,
display cards, ATX power supplies, and even plugged out memory chip
(reduced memory chips from 2x128MB+164MB to 1x128MB) but result was
the same for over 10 trials of PC boot.

Among those 10 trials, only one trial succeed in outputting hardware
diagnosis messages to CRT monitor (128MB RAM counted successfully).
However, the result couldn't be reproduced even if I kept on using the
same set of hardware components.

Can I conclude that my ASUS motherboard suffers unrecoverable hardware
fault ? I've called my friend and he said that no such porblem found
before he gave me the board. What is worst, the original ASUS manual
doesn't come along with any troubleshooting guide.

http://www.asus.com/pub/asus/mb/slot1/440lx/p2l97/p2l97-105.pdf

 

[daytripper]

Hi,

I got one P2L97 motherboard from my friend with a 266MHz CPU. I
connect one function normal ATX power to motherboard power plug (no
power connected to HD, CD, Floppy yet). I plugged in one function
normal display card & sound card. When I pushed on PC's power on
button, nothing appeared on CRT monitor (not even hardware diagnosis
or memory count message). As I pushed the reset button, I heard "Boo
~~ Boo Boo Boo" sound (the first Boo sound being long one), nothing
output either. I 've tried using different workable CRT monitors,
display cards, ATX power supplies, and even plugged out memory chip
(reduced memory chips from 2x128MB+164MB to 1x128MB) but result was
the same for over 10 trials of PC boot.

Among those 10 trials, only one trial succeed in outputting hardware
diagnosis messages to CRT monitor (128MB RAM counted successfully).
However, the result couldn't be reproduced even if I kept on using the
same set of hardware components.

Can I conclude that my ASUS motherboard suffers unrecoverable hardware
fault ? I've called my friend and he said that no such porblem found
before he gave me the board. What is worst, the original ASUS manual
doesn't come along with any troubleshooting guide.

http://www.asus.com/pub/asus/mb/slot1/440lx/p2l97/p2l97-105.pdf

Might be a long shot, but years ago I had a P2L97 and as I recall the AGP
connector was a fricken' bear to get a plug-in card seated. I'm not *positive*
but the long - short short short beep pattern was what triggered that memory.

Make triple sure you've bottomed the AGP card in the socket...

/daytripper

 

[JAD]

1 long three short memory problem I believe

what bios does it have?
award? video
Ami? memory
phoenix? video