"Don Burnette" wrote in message
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Here's one for the books, if anyone has any idea what I did wrong, I would
be curious to know, as I don't want this to happen again.
I had an A7N8X Deluxe version 1.4. Had always been rock solid for me. I
was
running an Athlon XP2400+ in it, and decided to drop an Athlon XP 2600+
Barton in it, since the prices were so reasonable now.
I hve built many computers, and upgraded cpu's many times with no
problems.
So I get the new chip, install it, install a Thermalrite SLK900 heatsink
w/
92mm fan, using Arctic Silver 3.
Turned it on, immediately went into bios to correctly set the fsb. Exited
saving changes, and it started to boot, then gave some error message about
cpu changing, then shut itself off.
Try as I might, I could not get it to post again. I would turn it on, the
hdd activity light would stay solid, and it would not even post. I checked
all my connections, verified everything was correct, still no go. I
reseated
all my cards and ram, no go. I took everything out but video card, no go.
I
tried clearing the cmos, still no go.
No post, no beeps, nothing. Monitor's power led was orange rather than
green, so it obviously was not getting a signal.
Treid replacing the cmos battery, and clearing it again - still , no post.
Tried putting the XP2400+ chip back in, to make sure the new Barton chip
was
not bad. Still, no post..
At a loss, I figured I must have somehow fried my motherboard. So, I orded
a
new A7N8X Deluxe version 2, and had it overnighted in from Newegg.com.
Put the new motherboard in, hooked everything up, including putting my new
Barton 2600+ with SLK 900 h/s, and she posted and booted just fine, and
has
been running fine for the last 4 hours so far.
. . .
Don Burnette
Just WAGing, but what BIOS level is installed on your 1.04 board? 1004 is
minimum level that supports Barton 2600+ on PCB rev. 1.04. You might just
have a corrupt BIOS now; maybe try another BIOS chip and see if it revives
the board.
http://www.badflash.com/
Or if you have access to another rev. 1.04 or 1.06 board, hot flash the BIOS
chip. It *might* be possible to use your rev 2.0 board to hot flash the
rev. 1.04 chip, if both boards use the same BIOS chips.
http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx...var1=62&var2=1