PC4800-E no post problem.

FreeStream · 25 May 2006 at 12:57

Just bought a 2nd hand PC4800-E off the MM, installed it along with:

P4 2.53 Northy
2x512Mb TCCD
9800 Pro
480W True blue

Flashed to the latest BIOS by the seller, and CMOS was cleared as per manual before boot.

Now, the green LED turns on, fans spin up etc, but no beeps or post!

Tried 2x 256Mb, and 1 256Mb and nothing, so removed the HD, mem, DVD and tried again... nothing.

This mobo was working with the seller, with the Vcore Droop mod and another one.

Ive got my first GCSE at 2, so im going to remove the GPU and try again. Then leave it CMOS clearing while im at school

EDIT: Google brings up issues with Antecs and 9800 Pros, great!

Any ideas what It could be :confused:

AWPC · 25 May 2006 at 13:47

Unplug the main lead from it as well otherwise it retains the bios and cannot clear the cmos.

FreeStream · 25 May 2006 at 15:54

AWPC said:
Unplug the main lead from it as well otherwise it retains the bios and cannot clear the cmos.

Yep, I complety removed it, been clearing for 2 hours now gonna test stuff in old mobo.

CR.

EDIT: Everything works in old mobo

Nope, still no boot. Balls!

james32 · 25 May 2006 at 16:11

had this problem with with my p4c800 when 1st built it
try taking graphics card out then slam it back in
that usually worked for me, always seems to be ati cards that do it.

FreeStream · 25 May 2006 at 16:32

james32 said:
had this problem with with my p4c800 when 1st built it
try taking graphics card out then slam it back in
that usually worked for me, always seems to be ati cards that do it.

Nah, tested with two cards now, 7000 Pro and a 9800 Pro, no boot even without a gfx in it

Any ideas or is it b0rked?

shine · 25 May 2006 at 19:21

I had this problem with mine after I upgraded to the latest bios. Nothing I did would get it working so I flashed it with an older version of the bios and everything started working again!

m3csl2004 · 25 May 2006 at 19:49

if it had volt mods, maybe there set to low/high for the board to post

FreeStream · 25 May 2006 at 22:18

:| I dont really want to mess with that, the board should have been sold in a condition to post and go.

Doing an overnight CMOS clear, lets see if that allows me to boot

FreeStream · 26 May 2006 at 09:18

Okay that did sod all!

Anyone know of any issues with the latest BIOSes and the 533FSB Northwoods?

marc2003 · 26 May 2006 at 09:50

Concorde Rules said:
Okay that did sod all!

Anyone know of any issues with the latest BIOSes and the 533FSB Northwoods?

i doubt it. i used the 1023.001 bios with an even older 400fsb celeron no problem on mine.