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December 21st 03, 06:23 PM
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Cannot boot P4C800 Deluxe, cannot get into BIOS, Fatal Error....
Hi,
Can anyone shed any light on this problem?, full description below...I'm tending to think the board is seriously faulty, but maybe I'm missing something fundamental....any help/suggestions greatl appreciated... System: Motherboard: Asus P4C800 Deluxe Processor: Intel pentium 4 2.8GHz, 533MHz, 512 L2 Cach, 478pin PGA Memory: Kingston 512MB, KHX2700K2/512 HDD: Seagate Barracuda Serial AA 80GB Video card: Sapphire ATI Radeon 7000 64MB DDR AGP CDROM: Samsung SD-616QBB DVDROM Symptoms: Essentially the system doesn't boot and I cannot enter bios - I've described the sequence of events below, firstly just powering up and secondly powering whilts holding DEL to try to access BIOS..... On power up, 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller,BIOS not installed... 3] American Megatrends logo - Fatal Error...System Halted. On power up, holding DEL down in order to enter BIOS: 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] American Megatrends logo Messages: - AMI BIOS - CPU detected correctly - Memory detected correctly 3] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller, BIOS not installed... 4] Final screen: Entering SETUP... Press F8 for BBS POPUP DDR Frequency 333MHz, Dual Channel, Linear Mode Checking NVRAM... 512MB OK Auto-Detecting Pri Master..ATAPI CD-ROM Auto-Detecting 3rd Master..IDE Hard Disk Pri Master..SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616Q F403 Ultra DMA Mode-2 3rd Master: ST380013AS 3.05 Ultra DMA Mode-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK Auto-detecting USB Mass Storage Devices .. 00 USB mass storage devices found and configured. Fatal Error... System Halted. Other symptoms a Floppy not detected CDROM is detected HDD is detected Keyboard is detected but inactive i.e. Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect once the 'Fatal Error...' mesage is seen. Action taken: Floppy and floppy cable replaced - no difference Keyboad replaced - no difference Video card replaced - no difference Can't boot from floppy or flash the bio as floppy does not respond 
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#2
December 21st 03, 07:15 PM
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Try some alternative memory or one stick at a time.
Alan "thegroover" wrote in message om... Hi, Can anyone shed any light on this problem?, full description below...I'm tending to think the board is seriously faulty, but maybe I'm missing something fundamental....any help/suggestions greatl appreciated... System: Motherboard: Asus P4C800 Deluxe Processor: Intel pentium 4 2.8GHz, 533MHz, 512 L2 Cach, 478pin PGA Memory: Kingston 512MB, KHX2700K2/512 HDD: Seagate Barracuda Serial AA 80GB Video card: Sapphire ATI Radeon 7000 64MB DDR AGP CDROM: Samsung SD-616QBB DVDROM Symptoms: Essentially the system doesn't boot and I cannot enter bios - I've described the sequence of events below, firstly just powering up and secondly powering whilts holding DEL to try to access BIOS..... On power up, 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller,BIOS not installed... 3] American Megatrends logo - Fatal Error...System Halted. On power up, holding DEL down in order to enter BIOS: 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] American Megatrends logo Messages: - AMI BIOS - CPU detected correctly - Memory detected correctly 3] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller, BIOS not installed... 4] Final screen: Entering SETUP... Press F8 for BBS POPUP DDR Frequency 333MHz, Dual Channel, Linear Mode Checking NVRAM... 512MB OK Auto-Detecting Pri Master..ATAPI CD-ROM Auto-Detecting 3rd Master..IDE Hard Disk Pri Master..SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616Q F403 Ultra DMA Mode-2 3rd Master: ST380013AS 3.05 Ultra DMA Mode-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK Auto-detecting USB Mass Storage Devices .. 00 USB mass storage devices found and configured. Fatal Error... System Halted. Other symptoms a Floppy not detected CDROM is detected HDD is detected Keyboard is detected but inactive i.e. Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect once the 'Fatal Error...' mesage is seen. Action taken: Floppy and floppy cable replaced - no difference Keyboad replaced - no difference Video card replaced - no difference Can't boot from floppy or flash the bio as floppy does not respond
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#3
December 21st 03, 08:03 PM
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thegroover wrote: Hi, Can anyone shed any light on this problem?, full description below...I'm tending to think the board is seriously faulty, but maybe I'm missing something fundamental....any help/suggestions greatl appreciated... snipped for brevity 4] Final screen: Entering SETUP... Press F8 for BBS POPUP DDR Frequency 333MHz, Dual Channel, Linear Mode Checking NVRAM... 512MB OK Auto-Detecting Pri Master..ATAPI CD-ROM Auto-Detecting 3rd Master..IDE Hard Disk Pri Master..SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616Q F403 Ultra DMA Mode-2 3rd Master: ST380013AS 3.05 Ultra DMA Mode-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK Auto-detecting USB Mass Storage Devices .. 00 USB mass storage devices found and configured. Fatal Error... System Halted. Other symptoms a Floppy not detected CDROM is detected HDD is detected Keyboard is detected but inactive i.e. Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect once the 'Fatal Error...' mesage is seen. Action taken: Floppy and floppy cable replaced - no difference Keyboad replaced - no difference Video card replaced - no difference Can't boot from floppy or flash the bio as floppy does not respond The fourth screen probably provided the hint. There may be a problem with the USB port, even though it does detect a device. Is there 1 beep for the external USB device? Remove the USB external drive (or mass storage device). If computer boots, then delete and re-install the USB drivers from the P4C800 installation cdrom via Device Manager.
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December 21st 03, 10:14 PM
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Hi,
1) - I had the mouse & the keyboard the wrong way round - and all I got was a blank screen, no warning beeps anything. 2) - a bad memory chip - it would only boot up about 1 in 10 times. I pulled the bad chip and it now boots every time Bill "thegroover" wrote in message om... Hi, Can anyone shed any light on this problem?, full description below...I'm tending to think the board is seriously faulty, but maybe I'm missing something fundamental....any help/suggestions greatl appreciated... System: Motherboard: Asus P4C800 Deluxe Processor: Intel pentium 4 2.8GHz, 533MHz, 512 L2 Cach, 478pin PGA Memory: Kingston 512MB, KHX2700K2/512 HDD: Seagate Barracuda Serial AA 80GB Video card: Sapphire ATI Radeon 7000 64MB DDR AGP CDROM: Samsung SD-616QBB DVDROM Symptoms: Essentially the system doesn't boot and I cannot enter bios - I've described the sequence of events below, firstly just powering up and secondly powering whilts holding DEL to try to access BIOS..... On power up, 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller,BIOS not installed... 3] American Megatrends logo - Fatal Error...System Halted. On power up, holding DEL down in order to enter BIOS: 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] American Megatrends logo Messages: - AMI BIOS - CPU detected correctly - Memory detected correctly 3] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller, BIOS not installed... 4] Final screen: Entering SETUP... Press F8 for BBS POPUP DDR Frequency 333MHz, Dual Channel, Linear Mode Checking NVRAM... 512MB OK Auto-Detecting Pri Master..ATAPI CD-ROM Auto-Detecting 3rd Master..IDE Hard Disk Pri Master..SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616Q F403 Ultra DMA Mode-2 3rd Master: ST380013AS 3.05 Ultra DMA Mode-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK Auto-detecting USB Mass Storage Devices .. 00 USB mass storage devices found and configured. Fatal Error... System Halted. Other symptoms a Floppy not detected CDROM is detected HDD is detected Keyboard is detected but inactive i.e. Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect once the 'Fatal Error...' mesage is seen. Action taken: Floppy and floppy cable replaced - no difference Keyboad replaced - no difference Video card replaced - no difference Can't boot from floppy or flash the bio as floppy does not respond
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#5
December 22nd 03, 09:10 AM
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Before doing any of the above things, CLEAR THE CMOS!! (Short the bios
jumper) Refer to your manual for procedure. If that does not clear things up, then it is most likely bad ram. Could be allot of things really.I'm a comp tech that the very first thing id do, SHORT THE CMOS!! Peace wrote in message .net... Hi, 1) - I had the mouse & the keyboard the wrong way round - and all I got was a blank screen, no warning beeps anything. 2) - a bad memory chip - it would only boot up about 1 in 10 times. I pulled the bad chip and it now boots every time Bill "thegroover" wrote in message om... Hi, Can anyone shed any light on this problem?, full description below...I'm tending to think the board is seriously faulty, but maybe I'm missing something fundamental....any help/suggestions greatl appreciated... System: Motherboard: Asus P4C800 Deluxe Processor: Intel pentium 4 2.8GHz, 533MHz, 512 L2 Cach, 478pin PGA Memory: Kingston 512MB, KHX2700K2/512 HDD: Seagate Barracuda Serial AA 80GB Video card: Sapphire ATI Radeon 7000 64MB DDR AGP CDROM: Samsung SD-616QBB DVDROM Symptoms: Essentially the system doesn't boot and I cannot enter bios - I've described the sequence of events below, firstly just powering up and secondly powering whilts holding DEL to try to access BIOS..... On power up, 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller,BIOS not installed... 3] American Megatrends logo - Fatal Error...System Halted. On power up, holding DEL down in order to enter BIOS: 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] American Megatrends logo Messages: - AMI BIOS - CPU detected correctly - Memory detected correctly 3] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller, BIOS not installed... 4] Final screen: Entering SETUP... Press F8 for BBS POPUP DDR Frequency 333MHz, Dual Channel, Linear Mode Checking NVRAM... 512MB OK Auto-Detecting Pri Master..ATAPI CD-ROM Auto-Detecting 3rd Master..IDE Hard Disk Pri Master..SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616Q F403 Ultra DMA Mode-2 3rd Master: ST380013AS 3.05 Ultra DMA Mode-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK Auto-detecting USB Mass Storage Devices .. 00 USB mass storage devices found and configured. Fatal Error... System Halted. Other symptoms a Floppy not detected CDROM is detected HDD is detected Keyboard is detected but inactive i.e. Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect once the 'Fatal Error...' mesage is seen. Action taken: Floppy and floppy cable replaced - no difference Keyboad replaced - no difference Video card replaced - no difference Can't boot from floppy or flash the bio as floppy does not respond
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December 22nd 03, 09:23 AM
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#7
December 23rd 03, 02:20 AM
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I had a similiar but not exactly the same problem. Fix was to use
instructions on page 2-19 and CLEAR the RTC RAM. Not sure why this helped...but it did the trick! "thegroover" wrote in message om... Hi, Can anyone shed any light on this problem?, full description below...I'm tending to think the board is seriously faulty, but maybe I'm missing something fundamental....any help/suggestions greatl appreciated... System: Motherboard: Asus P4C800 Deluxe Processor: Intel pentium 4 2.8GHz, 533MHz, 512 L2 Cach, 478pin PGA Memory: Kingston 512MB, KHX2700K2/512 HDD: Seagate Barracuda Serial AA 80GB Video card: Sapphire ATI Radeon 7000 64MB DDR AGP CDROM: Samsung SD-616QBB DVDROM Symptoms: Essentially the system doesn't boot and I cannot enter bios - I've described the sequence of events below, firstly just powering up and secondly powering whilts holding DEL to try to access BIOS..... On power up, 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller,BIOS not installed... 3] American Megatrends logo - Fatal Error...System Halted. On power up, holding DEL down in order to enter BIOS: 1] ASUS welcome screen seen 2] American Megatrends logo Messages: - AMI BIOS - CPU detected correctly - Memory detected correctly 3] Then changes to FastTrack Bios screen: - FastTrack378 BIOS etc. - Scanning IDE Drives..... - No drives attached to FastTrack controller, BIOS not installed... 4] Final screen: Entering SETUP... Press F8 for BBS POPUP DDR Frequency 333MHz, Dual Channel, Linear Mode Checking NVRAM... 512MB OK Auto-Detecting Pri Master..ATAPI CD-ROM Auto-Detecting 3rd Master..IDE Hard Disk Pri Master..SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616Q F403 Ultra DMA Mode-2 3rd Master: ST380013AS 3.05 Ultra DMA Mode-5, S.M.A.R.T. Capable and Status OK Auto-detecting USB Mass Storage Devices .. 00 USB mass storage devices found and configured. Fatal Error... System Halted. Other symptoms a Floppy not detected CDROM is detected HDD is detected Keyboard is detected but inactive i.e. Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect once the 'Fatal Error...' mesage is seen. Action taken: Floppy and floppy cable replaced - no difference Keyboad replaced - no difference Video card replaced - no difference Can't boot from floppy or flash the bio as floppy does not respond
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