Need help with new AMD computer

yogi · Post by **yogi** » Thu Sep 27, 2001 10:45 pm

I had jsut bought a Gigabyte GA-7ZX-H motherboard, Inno3D Geforce 2 MX 400 64MB video card, 256 MB PC133 Micron memory, 40 GB HD, DVD, and CDRW. This is being powered by a 300W PS which supposedely is compatible w/ AMD mobos.

When I hooked it up and turned it on nothing happened. No beeps, no screen, nothing. I ended up swapping two other memory modules of different brand and that didnt work. The HD spins up, and the power supply is working, so it is not those.

What else could it be? The only jumper settings I touched were for the 133MHZ memory settings. The cables from the HD to the mobo are in correctly.

I did notice that the floppy drive light is constantly on but it continues to stay on no matter which way I switch the cables and I know it works b/c I took it off a working computer.

Any suggestions would be great.

TIA

blade · Post by **blade** » Thu Sep 27, 2001 11:12 pm

This is a common problem most of us have. It's usually either the ram, video card or cpu. Since you've tried the ram I'd reseat the video card, maybe again if still no go. If still nothing I'd reseat the cpu also. I know it's a pain removing the heatsink but that happened to me recently. Had the same thing happen, tried different ram, different ram slots(try that too), reseating the video card and once I re-did the cpu/heatsink it worked fine.

If you try all the above then it could still be the power supply possibly. Some 300w are not powerful enough for a 1.4 but all I've tried have worked just fine. What cpu do you have?

yogi · Post by **yogi** » Thu Sep 27, 2001 11:18 pm

I have a Thunderbird 900 MHZ. Since my first post I put in another video card (with 900 MHZ) and nothing, then I put in a 1.4 GHz w/ the first video card I had and nothing still.

How long would it take the CPU burn up, b/c I accidently forgot to connect the fan and had only the heatsink on for approc. 1 min. while the 900 was running. I dont think that would matter though.

blade · Post by **blade** » Thu Sep 27, 2001 11:27 pm

Several others have accidently run an amd cpu with no fan for several minutes and didn't have any problems so hopefully yours is ok.

I'd still reseat the video card, reseat the ram and try different slots and lastly I'd try redoing the cpu. If still no go then I'd try another power supply and hope it isn't the mobo. But I still think it's either the ram, video card or cpu. And be sure any jumpers aree set correctly according to the mobo manual.

yogi · Post by **yogi** » Thu Sep 27, 2001 11:41 pm

Got it working!!

I went and set the jumpers back to default and it fired right up! Next time I am going to get a jumperless motherboard like my Abit that is runnung my PIII

Thanks for your help Blade

blade · Post by **blade** » Thu Sep 27, 2001 11:54 pm

Cool deal

I like abit too and that's one reason why. Have an epox now and the jumpers screwed me up at first too.

Kakarot · Post by **Kakarot** » Tue Oct 02, 2001 8:59 am

Yea, I was gonna say... you said you put the jumper into 133mhz mode... when the 900 is in there it would try to post as 9x133 which is 1200...