asus a7n8x new build will not boot

[paul]

I recently decided to rebuild my system and install a new asus a7n8x
motherboard into my machine. I have an AMD Athlon 2200 , 512mb ddr ram
(dont know all the specs),an antec case ( i belive it is model number
plus 1080amg) , and an 80 gig hardrive. I know all of the components
work as they were in my previous system and running fine..The only
change that was made to the system is the motherboard.

My problem is that after i hooked up all the components , my sytem
refused to boot up, ......no fans spinning no hard drive
spinning...nothing!!! I checked all my connections from the case to
the board as i figured tha would be the problem and tried to start it
up...again nothing......I am getting power to the board because the
standby power light is on.....but it just wont turn over. Has anyone
else experienced this problem and if so what did you do to fix /
troubleshoot??????

If anyone out there can help i would really appreciate it!!!!

 

[BoB]

Unplug all the power leads to all drives, pull any usb connectors,
pull all case to mobo connectors, leave the power on switch only!
See if it posts then! Make sure the cpu is seated well!
Maybe bad mobo!

 

[mrdancer]

I recently decided to rebuild my system and install a new asus a7n8x
motherboard into my machine. I have an AMD Athlon 2200 , 512mb ddr ram
(dont know all the specs),an antec case ( i belive it is model number
plus 1080amg) , and an 80 gig hardrive. I know all of the components
work as they were in my previous system and running fine..The only
change that was made to the system is the motherboard.

My problem is that after i hooked up all the components , my sytem
refused to boot up, ......no fans spinning no hard drive
spinning...nothing!!! I checked all my connections from the case to
the board as i figured tha would be the problem and tried to start it
up...again nothing......I am getting power to the board because the
standby power light is on.....but it just wont turn over. Has anyone
else experienced this problem and if so what did you do to fix /
troubleshoot??????

If anyone out there can help i would really appreciate it!!!!

Make sure your CPU and HSF are seated properly, and the RAM is seated
properly. You might try a different stick of RAM if possible. If no luck,
unplug the power cord and wait for onboard LED to go out, remove the CMOS
battery and put the CLEAR CMOS jumper on for at least five seconds. Reset
the jumper, put the battery back in, plug in the computer and see if it
boots up.

A number of us have had problems with the a7n8x out-of-the-box. Apparently
a number of these have been shipped with a corrupted BIOS, or the BIOS
is/was easily corrupted by some other means. I RMA'd my first board after
pulling out my hair trying to figure out what was wrong, the replacement
board booted up like a charm and no problems since.

 

[Arnie Berger]

I recently decided to rebuild my system and install a new asus a7n8x
motherboard into my machine. I have an AMD Athlon 2200 , 512mb ddr ram
(dont know all the specs),an antec case ( i belive it is model number
plus 1080amg) , and an 80 gig hardrive. I know all of the components
work as they were in my previous system and running fine..The only
change that was made to the system is the motherboard.

My problem is that after i hooked up all the components , my sytem
refused to boot up, ......no fans spinning no hard drive
spinning...nothing!!! I checked all my connections from the case to
the board as i figured tha would be the problem and tried to start it
up...again nothing......I am getting power to the board because the
standby power light is on.....but it just wont turn over. Has anyone
else experienced this problem and if so what did you do to fix /
troubleshoot??????

If anyone out there can help i would really appreciate it!!!!

I'm going to assume that you basically have working hardware (even the
ASUS board. Here are some things to consider:

1- Your power supply is collapsing on one or more voltage rails. My
guess is the 3.3 volt rail. Why? New motherboard, heavier power
demand. Check to see if the fan in your power supply is spinning. If
not, then the power supply has shut down.
2- Short circuit to the case. This is doubtful, but possible. Why? You
said the standby power light is on. That's not definitive, but
generally indicates that you don't have a short. It's worth checking
by removing the mobo and power supply from the case and try turning it
on on an insulated table top.
3- Improperly inserted the CPU. This will give you the symptoms you
describe, especially if it is rotated 90 degrees. Also, it is possible
that you bent a pin, however, this would not account for no turn-on
power.
4- CPU fan plugged into the wrong connector. Unless the chipset sees
the fan rotating, it shuts down power to the board to protect the CPU.
Make sure that the fan is plugged into the correct connector.

Good luck.

 

[paul]

I'm going to assume that you basically have working hardware (even the
ASUS board. Here are some things to consider:

1- Your power supply is collapsing on one or more voltage rails. My
guess is the 3.3 volt rail. Why? New motherboard, heavier power
demand. Check to see if the fan in your power supply is spinning. If
not, then the power supply has shut down.

My power supply is 500 watts and was working a few days ago , would
changing the board make it crap out?? If the ps is no longer working ,
is there anything i can do to try and fix it so that i dont have to
buy a new one...

2- Short circuit to the case. This is doubtful, but possible. Why? You
said the standby power light is on. That's not definitive, but
generally indicates that you don't have a short. It's worth checking
by removing the mobo and power supply from the case and try turning it
on on an insulated table top.
3- Improperly inserted the CPU. This will give you the symptoms you
describe, especially if it is rotated 90 degrees. Also, it is possible
that you bent a pin, however, this would not account for no turn-on
power.
4- CPU fan plugged into the wrong connector. Unless the chipset sees
the fan rotating, it shuts down power to the board to protect the CPU.
Make sure that the fan is plugged into the correct connector.

Good luck.

Im going to look into all the suggestions that you have posted and
post my findings........thanks for the help!!!

 

[paul]

My power supply is 500 watts and was working a few days ago , would
changing the board make it crap out?? If the ps is no longer working ,
is there anything i can do to try and fix it so that i dont have to
buy a new one...


Im going to look into all the suggestions that you have posted and
post my findings........thanks for the help!!!

To anyine who may read this ...............

the solution was that i had placed my cpu fan on backwards and since
the cpu fan wouyldnt start while it was on backwards the whole system
wouldnt power up.After i solved that problem, i found myself with
another problem......windows wouldnt start up. I was getting the win
xp splash screen for a second and then my machine would reboot and
tell me that windows was unable to boot properly because of a hardware
change. I bought a new hd and did a fresh install and now the system
works great , but i am still not able to retrieve the info of of my
old hard drive....im not about to format it and lose everything i have
on there. If any one has any suggestions on how i could retrieve the
info off of my drive please post it

Thanks

 

[Ed]

To anyine who may read this ...............

the solution was that i had placed my cpu fan on backwards and since
the cpu fan wouyldnt start while it was on backwards the whole system
wouldnt power up.After i solved that problem, i found myself with
another problem......windows wouldnt start up. I was getting the win
xp splash screen for a second and then my machine would reboot and
tell me that windows was unable to boot properly because of a hardware
change. I bought a new hd and did a fresh install and now the system
works great , but i am still not able to retrieve the info of of my
old hard drive....im not about to format it and lose everything i have
on there. If any one has any suggestions on how i could retrieve the
info off of my drive please post it

Thanks

If I was *really* stuck I would stick the drive in a PC that the drive
works in and transfer the data over LAN.

Ed

 

[peter]

The reason XP would not start is because you had all new parts and under those circumstances a "repair" installation woul have solved your problem.Now I would suggest that you hook your old HD up and use it as a slave.
OR....you could do that repair installation with the old drive rehooked as the primary drive and your new HD hooked as a slave
XP REPAIR ..............................................................................

Boot from the CD or you can insert the CD while at the windows desktop but
when the setup screen appears, exit setup and reboot. If your system is set
to be able to boot from the CD, it should detect the disk and give a brief
message, during the boot up, if you wish to boot from the CD press any key.

Once you have pressed a key, setup should begin. You will see a reference
asking if you need to load special drivers and another notice that if you
wish to begin the ASR (Automatic Recovery Console) depress F2. Just let
setup run past all of that. It will continue to load files and drivers.

Then it will bring you to a screen. Eventually, you will come to a screen
with the option to (1) setup Windows or (2) Repair Windows Installation
using the Recovery console.

The first option, to setup Windows is the one you want and requires you to
press enter. When asked, press F8 to accept the end user agreement. Setup
will then search for previous versions of Windows. Upon finding your
version, it will ask if you wish to Repair your current installation or
install fresh. Press R, that will run a repair installation. From there
on, follow the screens.

peter

| (e-mail address removed) (paul) wrote in message | > (e-mail address removed) (Arnie Berger) wrote in message | > > (e-mail address removed) (paul) wrote in message | > > > I recently decided to rebuild my system and install a new asus a7n8x
| > > > motherboard into my machine. I have an AMD Athlon 2200 , 512mb ddr ram
| > > > (dont know all the specs),an antec case ( i belive it is model number
| > > > plus 1080amg) , and an 80 gig hardrive. I know all of the components
| > > > work as they were in my previous system and running fine..The only
| > > > change that was made to the system is the motherboard.
| > > >
| > > > My problem is that after i hooked up all the components , my sytem
| > > > refused to boot up, ......no fans spinning no hard drive
| > > > spinning...nothing!!! I checked all my connections from the case to
| > > > the board as i figured tha would be the problem and tried to start it
| > > > up...again nothing......I am getting power to the board because the
| > > > standby power light is on.....but it just wont turn over. Has anyone
| > > > else experienced this problem and if so what did you do to fix /
| > > > troubleshoot??????
| > > >
| > > > If anyone out there can help i would really appreciate it!!!!
| > >
| > > I'm going to assume that you basically have working hardware (even the
| > > ASUS board. Here are some things to consider:
| > >
| > > 1- Your power supply is collapsing on one or more voltage rails. My
| > > guess is the 3.3 volt rail. Why? New motherboard, heavier power
| > > demand. Check to see if the fan in your power supply is spinning. If
| > > not, then the power supply has shut down.
| > My power supply is 500 watts and was working a few days ago , would
| > changing the board make it crap out?? If the ps is no longer working ,
| > is there anything i can do to try and fix it so that i dont have to
| > buy a new one...
| >
| > > 2- Short circuit to the case. This is doubtful, but possible. Why? You
| > > said the standby power light is on. That's not definitive, but
| > > generally indicates that you don't have a short. It's worth checking
| > > by removing the mobo and power supply from the case and try turning it
| > > on on an insulated table top.
| > > 3- Improperly inserted the CPU. This will give you the symptoms you
| > > describe, especially if it is rotated 90 degrees. Also, it is possible
| > > that you bent a pin, however, this would not account for no turn-on
| > > power.
| > > 4- CPU fan plugged into the wrong connector. Unless the chipset sees
| > > the fan rotating, it shuts down power to the board to protect the CPU.
| > > Make sure that the fan is plugged into the correct connector.
| > >
| > > Good luck.
| >
| > Im going to look into all the suggestions that you have posted and
| > post my findings........thanks for the help!!!
|
|
| To anyine who may read this ...............
|
| the solution was that i had placed my cpu fan on backwards and since
| the cpu fan wouyldnt start while it was on backwards the whole system
| wouldnt power up.After i solved that problem, i found myself with
| another problem......windows wouldnt start up. I was getting the win
| xp splash screen for a second and then my machine would reboot and
| tell me that windows was unable to boot properly because of a hardware
| change. I bought a new hd and did a fresh install and now the system
| works great , but i am still not able to retrieve the info of of my
| old hard drive....im not about to format it and lose everything i have
| on there. If any one has any suggestions on how i could retrieve the
| info off of my drive please post it
|
| Thanks

 

[6bal]

I bought a new hd and did a fresh install and now the system
works great , but i am still not able to retrieve the info of of my
old hard drive..

Why not ?
Did you hook it up ?

Attach it to the system as a slave and boot up.

 

[paul]

Why not ?
Did you hook it up ?

Attach it to the system as a slave and boot up.

The first thing that i thought to do was to hook it up as a
slave......but when i boot up i get an error that says " slave hard
drive fail" anything that is on the same channel with that hd also
will not work....as soon as i remove the drive the other hardware
works fine........its a strange problem

 

[6bal]

The first thing that i thought to do was to hook it up as a
slave......but when i boot up i get an error that says " slave hard
drive fail" anything that is on the same channel with that hd also
will not work....as soon as i remove the drive the other hardware
works fine........its a strange problem

Have you tried Cable Select ?

 

[paul]

Have you tried Cable Select ?

ALL-
I would like to thank everyone who offered their advice on this issue.
In the end it turns out that all i had to do was a repair install of
windows like peter suggested (thanks peter, good call)!!!I finally got
some time to work on my machine this afternoon and i did exactly what
peter described in his post. My machine is working perfectly. To
anyone else who might experience this same problem later on,....I
leave you some pearls of wisdom from my experience
1. If your machine doesnt boot when you first install the motherboard
, dont just eyeball your work(it might look ok , but one small detail
might be your problem)...take it all apart and start from scratch

2. When your machine boots remember to load the drivers that came with
the motherboard( i know thats kind of a no brainer, but i was goin f'n
crazy tryin to get my machine online until i realized i didnt load any
of the drivers for my mb)

3. Not everyone who answers to your posts knows what their talking
about. Just be carefull whos advice you choose to follow, you might
end up in a worse mess than when you started

 

[Killer Miller]

I went though some of this with a SATA Drive
The correct siimage drivers were NOT included on the CD.
http://www.moddedcomputers.com/sata.htm

~Mike~
www.moddedcomputers.com



"paul"
| > >>
| > >> > I bought a new hd and did a fresh install and now the system
| > >> >works great , but i am still not able to retrieve the info of of my
| > >> >old hard drive..
| > >>
| > >> Why not ?
| > >> Did you hook it up ?
| > >>
| > >> Attach it to the system as a slave and boot up.
| > >>
| > >> >..im not about to format it and lose everything i have
| > >> >on there. If any one has any suggestions on how i could retrieve the
| > >> >info off of my drive please post it
| > >
| > >
| > >The first thing that i thought to do was to hook it up as a
| > >slave......but when i boot up i get an error that says " slave hard
| > >drive fail" anything that is on the same channel with that hd also
| > >will not work....as soon as i remove the drive the other hardware
| > >works fine........its a strange problem
| >
| > Have you tried Cable Select ?
|
| ALL-
| I would like to thank everyone who offered their advice on this issue.
| In the end it turns out that all i had to do was a repair install of
| windows like peter suggested (thanks peter, good call)!!!I finally got
| some time to work on my machine this afternoon and i did exactly what
| peter described in his post. My machine is working perfectly. To
| anyone else who might experience this same problem later on,....I
| leave you some pearls of wisdom from my experience
| 1. If your machine doesnt boot when you first install the motherboard
| , dont just eyeball your work(it might look ok , but one small detail
| might be your problem)...take it all apart and start from scratch
|
| 2. When your machine boots remember to load the drivers that came with
| the motherboard( i know thats kind of a no brainer, but i was goin f'n
| crazy tryin to get my machine online until i realized i didnt load any
| of the drivers for my mb)
|
| 3. Not everyone who answers to your posts knows what their talking
| about. Just be carefull whos advice you choose to follow, you might
| end up in a worse mess than when you started