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- 12 Apr 2006
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Excuse me starting a new post, this is still on the subject of non-POSTing GeForce 6100 + Sempron + 512mb DDR400. I'm just desperate for attention!
Besides the user-review saying that the board won't POST with DDR400, I've also found one saying (I'm paraphrasing):
"Make sure you have a metal screw in every standoff hole in this board. I put a plastic stand-off in one and the board wouldn't POST until I replaced it with metal".
So did that reviewer have a case like mine (GlobalWin 802) which does not have a standoff positioned under one of the holes in the mobo? How can I improvise? I don't have a washer to use if I put a screw up thru the underside of the mobo to hold the screw tight to the mobo...
... and if anyone could explain what the little orangey washers do and exactly where they should go... mine are between the standoff screws and the mobo, it's always worked OK like that. Someone must have told me to put them there a long time ago, but it's been suggested that, if one uses them at all, they should go between the screws and the metalised rings around the holes in the board.
There's only 2 things left to try before writing off this board as DOA, and that's DDR266 or 333 (neither of this I have) and the replacement of the plastic standoff I've had to use.
Yours beggingly,
clemenzina
Besides the user-review saying that the board won't POST with DDR400, I've also found one saying (I'm paraphrasing):
"Make sure you have a metal screw in every standoff hole in this board. I put a plastic stand-off in one and the board wouldn't POST until I replaced it with metal".
So did that reviewer have a case like mine (GlobalWin 802) which does not have a standoff positioned under one of the holes in the mobo? How can I improvise? I don't have a washer to use if I put a screw up thru the underside of the mobo to hold the screw tight to the mobo...
... and if anyone could explain what the little orangey washers do and exactly where they should go... mine are between the standoff screws and the mobo, it's always worked OK like that. Someone must have told me to put them there a long time ago, but it's been suggested that, if one uses them at all, they should go between the screws and the metalised rings around the holes in the board.
There's only 2 things left to try before writing off this board as DOA, and that's DDR266 or 333 (neither of this I have) and the replacement of the plastic standoff I've had to use.
Yours beggingly,
clemenzina