Yet another 775 rig not POSTing,

[MikeHunt79]

I built this for someone else...

New bits:
Asus p35 P5k
Crappy Thermaltake Case
Mhel 500W PSU (are these any good? - 12v Rail is 19A)

Bits he already had:
P4 CPU
4 x 512MB DDR2 PC4200 RAM
Asus 9600GT

So I put it all together and no POST.

So, what can I try to make it work...

I've got some known working ram, 3 working PSU's, a working 7800GT, and a E4300 but I can't pull this as it's in my WC rig...

Help please, what shall I swap first, PSU?

 

[MikeHunt79]

Ok, I'll swap out the ram and have a gander under the CPU socket... Hopefully this should get it to POST.

I've already done a CMOS reset, no joy....

 

[MikeHunt79]

Ok, I've tried changing the PSU, no luck, but when searching for the PSU, I found a "PC Analyser" thing. I've not tried it before, I bought it ages ago hoping it would prove useful... Here it is:

Now the manual for it is really bad english (probably translated), I'm reading thru it right now. I'm guessing the 39 is a BIOS error code? Any idea what is means?

I'll check what P4 it is, can I find out just by looking at the code on the chip?

EDIT: In the manual, it says 39 means "Displaying bus initialization error messages"... Could this be GFX related?

 

[MikeHunt79]

Hi,

What P4 did you install, link below is the list cpu's the board can take.

Just to confirm you have installed all power cables to the motherboard ie the 4 or 8 pin by the cpu.

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5K

Rob

Ok, I whipped off the heatsink, it's a Pentium D 820. So I'm guessing it's ok as the asus site mentions these:

Pentium D 820 (2.8 GHz, 800 FSB, revA0)
Pentium D 820 (2.8 GHz, 800 FSB, revB0)

I'm not sure of the Rev bit tho, so here's a pic, does anyone know if this is A or B?

 

[MikeHunt79]

Ok, I've tried a different GFX card, still no POST, still the same error code... Anything else I can try?