Dead A7N8X Deluxe Motherboard?

[Tone-EQ]

I have (had?) a revision 1.04 motherboard using the latest BIOS 1007, with a
2400+ (Thoroughbred-B) and a Coolermaster X-Dream mounted on top. I
attempted to install a 3200+ Barton in it's place, as I have read that it
_should_ be possible to use the 2 together.

Upon booting up afterwards, the system came on for approx. five seconds then
shut down. No beeps, no video signal to monitor, etc. etc. Not a big problem
I thought, it was probably just using the old FSB and multiplier settings,
so I reset the CMOS settings. Following instructions in the manual, I
removed the battery, moved the jumper cap over the other pins and back to
where it was and re-inserted the battery. Once again I tried to start the
system again. Same problem!

Tried putting the 2400+ back in to see if that would work... nope.

Also tried a known working Thunderbird 1400Mhz too... nope.

I needed the system back up and running ASAP, so I ordered a replacement
board, the A7N8X-E Deluxe. Everything works fine, 3200+ too, on the new
board. Full system specs detailed in my sig...

Anything else I can try to resurrect this motherboard or is it destined for
the big beige box in the sky?

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Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe (Revision 1.01, BIOS 1008)
AMD AthlonXP 3200+ (Barton, 11 x 200, 1.65VCore)
Coolermaster Aero 7 Lite HSF
1Gb (2 x 512) Samsung PC3200 400Mhz DDR RAM Dual Channel
(M368L6423DTM/CC400)
Leadtek WinFast GeForce 4 Ti4200 128Mb (A250LE TD MyVIVO)
19" Mitsubishi 1280x1024 100Hz 0.24 dot pitch (Diamond Pro 930SB BK)
2 x 120Gb Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 8Mb Cache (6Y120P0, Primary Master,
Primary Slave, no RAID)
2 x Samsung 52x/24x/52x/16x CD-RW/DVD-ROM (SM-352B, Secondary Master,
Secondary Slave)
Lian-Li PC-75B
Windows XP Home (SP1, DirectX 9.0b)

 

[Andrew J]

I have (had?) a revision 1.04 motherboard using the latest BIOS 1007, with a
2400+ (Thoroughbred-B) and a Coolermaster X-Dream mounted on top. I
attempted to install a 3200+ Barton in it's place, as I have read that it
_should_ be possible to use the 2 together.

Upon booting up afterwards, the system came on for approx. five seconds then
shut down. No beeps, no video signal to monitor, etc. etc. Not a big problem
I thought, it was probably just using the old FSB and multiplier settings,
so I reset the CMOS settings. Following instructions in the manual, I
removed the battery, moved the jumper cap over the other pins and back to
where it was and re-inserted the battery. Once again I tried to start the
system again. Same problem!

Tried putting the 2400+ back in to see if that would work... nope.

Also tried a known working Thunderbird 1400Mhz too... nope.

I needed the system back up and running ASAP, so I ordered a replacement
board, the A7N8X-E Deluxe. Everything works fine, 3200+ too, on the new
board. Full system specs detailed in my sig...

Anything else I can try to resurrect this motherboard or is it destined for
the big beige box in the sky?

Unplug PC, remove battery, move jumper for ten seconds. If I don't do
those exact steps mine does not reset and made me think is was hosed
several times when it's just fine.

 

[Tone-EQ]

I have (had?) a revision 1.04 motherboard using the latest BIOS 1007,
with a

Unplug PC, remove battery, move jumper for ten seconds. If I don't do
those exact steps mine does not reset and made me think is was hosed
several times when it's just fine.

Tried that too several times, with every processor I have.

If I boot the board up with no CPU, it stays on, but is obviously a little
less useful. :-?

 

[Rivergoat]

Latest BIOS is 1008, btw.

Are you sure the heat sink/fan is properly seated on the CPU? I've had
a board shut down within seconds of firing up because the CPU
overheated in an instant due to that cause....

 

[dino]

1008 is for the A7N8X-E....have read many problems of people not getting the
board to 200 FSB..my rev 2.0 will run 215 but that does not help you ..I
have had something like that before...unplug everything except CPU and
graphics..then try booting. If it fires up shut it down and plug everything
back in then try again.