A7A266-E CPU troubles...

[Blaedmon]

Ive installed an AMD XP 2400+ (which is supported) on this machine
(A7A266-E) and for the life of me cant get it to POST. All I get is a 'beep,
pause, beep, pause, beep... etc' error code of which I have no clue what it
means. Ive stripped the board down to only having the cpu and memory
installed. Ive tried JumperFree mode and jumpermode. Nothing works.
Annoying. Anyone had similar problems?

 

[bweebar]

Ive installed an AMD XP 2400+ (which is supported) on this machine
(A7A266-E) and for the life of me cant get it to POST. All I get is a 'beep,
pause, beep, pause, beep... etc' error code of which I have no clue what it
means. Ive stripped the board down to only having the cpu and memory
installed. Ive tried JumperFree mode and jumpermode. Nothing works.
Annoying. Anyone had similar problems?

Indeed, my v1.10 is running a 2400+ right now.

Long, continuous beeps indicate a memory problem. If you have one
stick of RAM, try it in a different slot, if you have more try them
one at a time. Out of interest, are you using SDR or DDR?

 

[Blaedmon]

Using pc2100DDR atm. Ram tests fine in other pc's... damn I hate computers
sometimes I'll try sdr anyway.

 

[Blaedmon]

alrighty then.. it appears my stick of 512 ddr pc2100 is wanky. Odd since
the stick works fine in other systems. Thanks for the idea to check it out.
Machine is up and running the xp 2400+ now

 

[billh]

The A7A266 boards and I think the -E as well had a jumper (not documented at
least on the non E boards) near the AGP slot that could be moved to put an
extra 0.1V on DDR memory. This may help. The A7A266 boards are very fussy
about memory.
Billh