With the Asus P4GE motherboard setup, power-up starts all the lights but I
get no BIOS display and no kind of boot activity
My configuration :
mainboard : p4ge-fsc
processor celeron d320 (fsb533)
memory : 256MB ddr (pc400)
video : onboard and gf4mmx440
I've also tried the processor, monitor and memory in other machines and they all
work fine.
I really need some help
Slawomir Zdziech
P4GE-FSC, sounds like a Fujitsu-Siemens OEM version of an Asus
board. That means there could be subtle differences compared to
an ordinary Asus P4GE board.
http://manuals.fujitsu-siemens.com/homepc/UK/02/p4ge-fsc/Man_P4GE_FSC_uk.pdf
There are three Asus boards. Your motherboard doesn't match any of them.
http://www.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/P4GE-V/e1115_p4ge-v.pdf
http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/p4ge-vm/e1166_p4ge-vm.pdf
http://www.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/p4ge-mx/e1722_p4ge-mx.pdf
Based on the date the manuals were produced, the P4GE-FSC is somewhere
between the P4GE-VM and the P4GE-MX. You can look up processor support
for the non-OEM Asus motherboards here.
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx
The P4GE-MX supports Celeron D, but the other non-OEM boards don't.
The only thing I can suggest, is using an older Socket 478 processor
to upgrade the BIOS on your motherboard, using a BIOS file downloaded
from Fujitsu-Siemens. Your symptoms are the same as some other boards,
where BIOS support for the Celeron D was not present, so only a
BIOS upgrade can fix it.
If you are thinking of flashing an Asus BIOS file into your board,
be very careful. I suspect the flash EEPROM size is different on
the boards, so the BIOS file may not fit properly. Look up the
part number printed on the top of the EEPROM, to verify the EEPROM
is the same capacity (in KB) as the Asus board you are "borrowing"
a flash file from. There are only a few cases, where such a transplant
is 100% trouble free. Differences in peripheral chips make such
transplants risky (i.e. peripherals won't be recognized, making the
board useless).
I would return the Celeron D and buy a chip that is known to work
in the board.
HTH,
Paul
