ABit NF7-M Trouble

[Danza]

Hi there,

I ordered the following parts, and received last week.

ABit NF7-M Motherboard
Athlon XP2500 333fsb OEM
512mb pc2700 333 ddr ram OEM
Maxtor ata 133 80gb hdd
LG DVD rom
CPU fan
Case

All assembled and triple checked (added my old floppy drive and
Gainward geforce 3 ti 500 (200)). I cleared cmos as per the mobo
manual before first powering up machine. I plugged in monitor and
keyboard, switched on and was preparting to enter setup to configure
everything. The keyboard lights flashed as per usual, got to the boot
screen (it stayed there/froze) and said....

Main Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1100 mhz
Mem test: OK

MEM Frequency for DDR 333 (the 'DDR 333' is highlighted
white,normal?)

Tried pressing del to enter setup, but the keyboard won't do
anything!!! the caps/scroll/num lock lights don't come on, and so I
am unable to enter setup. Tried using 2 different functional
keyboards, but to no avail!

Can anyone help me? Is it a ram/mobo fault?

Thanks,

Danza

 

[Dave C.]

Hi there,

I ordered the following parts, and received last week.

ABit NF7-M Motherboard
Athlon XP2500 333fsb OEM
512mb pc2700 333 ddr ram OEM
Maxtor ata 133 80gb hdd
LG DVD rom
CPU fan
Case

All assembled and triple checked (added my old floppy drive and
Gainward geforce 3 ti 500 (200)). I cleared cmos as per the mobo
manual before first powering up machine. I plugged in monitor and
keyboard, switched on and was preparting to enter setup to configure
everything. The keyboard lights flashed as per usual, got to the boot
screen (it stayed there/froze) and said....

Main Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1100 mhz
Mem test: OK

MEM Frequency for DDR 333 (the 'DDR 333' is highlighted
white,normal?)

Tried pressing del to enter setup, but the keyboard won't do
anything!!! the caps/scroll/num lock lights don't come on, and so I
am unable to enter setup. Tried using 2 different functional
keyboards, but to no avail!

Can anyone help me? Is it a ram/mobo fault?

Thanks,

Danza

Are these USB keyboards? Those will work, but USB keyboard has to be
enabled in BIOS first. So you'd need a PS/2 keyboard to access the BIOS
just long enough to turn on USB keyboard. -Dave

 

[Conor]

Hi there,

I ordered the following parts, and received last week.

ABit NF7-M Motherboard
Athlon XP2500 333fsb OEM
512mb pc2700 333 ddr ram OEM
Maxtor ata 133 80gb hdd
LG DVD rom
CPU fan
Case

All assembled and triple checked (added my old floppy drive and
Gainward geforce 3 ti 500 (200)). I cleared cmos as per the mobo
manual before first powering up machine. I plugged in monitor and
keyboard, switched on and was preparting to enter setup to configure
everything. The keyboard lights flashed as per usual, got to the boot
screen (it stayed there/froze) and said....

Main Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1100 mhz
Mem test: OK

MEM Frequency for DDR 333 (the 'DDR 333' is highlighted
white,normal?)

Tried pressing del to enter setup, but the keyboard won't do
anything!!! the caps/scroll/num lock lights don't come on, and so I
am unable to enter setup. Tried using 2 different functional
keyboards, but to no avail!

Can anyone help me? Is it a ram/mobo fault?

Unplug the IDE cables and try again as it sounds like its hanging on
IDE autodetect. If it works then check the master/slave jumpers on
each. You DO know that there's a specific order to connect drives on
ATA100/133 IDE cables don't you? Blue connector to motherboard, black
connector to master drive, grey connector to slave. If you're using a
Cable Select IDE cable and have the drive jumpered as master connected
to the grey connector, it causes all kinds of grief.

The DDR 333 in white is normal.