MSI K7T PRO 2A ram?

[hychka]

Just got the board out of the box and mounted, but before closing it into the case, I connected the wires and fired it up with nothing but the cpu and two sticks of 64 megs pc133 cs2 ram. It shuts off in about 3 seconds.

The LED trouble shooter lights are OXOO which the manual says means the on board memory is either broken or not installed properly.

Does this board require special ram? (Something other than what runs my Celeron 600 or my PIII 550??)

 

[SinMen]

Did you OC the board? If so, it might be that multiplier problem, try a lower setting..

 

[rbV5]

Try booting with just one stick at first, any slot should work.

 

[hychka]

Tried with just one stick. Tried it in each of the three slots.

No, I haven't OCed the BIOs. In fact ALL I have done is set the board on the mounting panel, installed the T-bird and heatsink/fan and connect the power and case wiring. That's it.

When i turn on the power the board turns on .... fan revolves on heatsink, the led four light panel goes to all red and the n to RGRR, which I understand means that the memory is broken or not installed correctly, and then th eboard shuts down... might take all of four seconds. That's it. That's all I get.

 

[hyprxtension]

Same thing happened to me, actually, w/Crucial RAM.

A quick switch of the clear BIOS jumper fixed it.

 

[hychka]

Well, switching the BIOS clear pins with the power off has left me without even the quick on and off I was getting before.

ANy other ideas out there?

 

[wvjohn]

your power switch has to be hooked up for the board to fire off - the 4 sec is just what the board does when you add power with power switch off - try switching the jbat jumper to power up completely - but that power switch has to be hooked up or shorted - just did this today on mine !

 

[hychka]

wvjohn,

Bless your whiskers, the CPU fan is twirling and the LED lights are telling me that I should check the IDE ribbons! HA!! I haven't attached a hard drive yet!!

What a relief!

OK, fans, let's see what stupid little setbacks hit me tomorrow when I try to move this installation to the next level!!

 

[hychka]

And here is today's logjam...

Connected ribbons, wires, modem, sound card, hard drive from old system running WIN2K and
the startup freezes in Windows 2000 Startup at "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\winnt\system32\drivers\agp440.sys"

Thinking it might be the BIOS, I've down loaded the 01/06/021 version, but can't get the system in its current state to find the file in the floppy drive (although the floppy seems to be working.

Any advice with this one?

Is it saying my Video board won't handle it? That the board doesn't like WIN2K? or what?

Help would be appreciated.

 

[Marqui]

Well, the problem is that you are using a hard drive from a different system, which means a different motherboard. Even though you are using the same cards from other other system, its still a different motherboard. Your device address will no doubtedly be assigned improperly. What I suggest doing is hitting the ole "F8" key and boot up into safe mode. "IF" it makes it to windows, then I would go into the device manager and remove ALL your hardware (card devices) and reboot. It should find and replace most of the drivers properly.

But what I would really do is just reformat and being a new install of windows 2000. Because if it does not work right the first time, you may be in for a long day of trouble shooting.

 

[hychka]

And a very long day it was, Marqui, ... ending up with my taking the HD out and going back to "old Faithful" this morning so that I can use e-mail and the internet again.

However, the new computer was up and running, good picture (NOT
terrific...needs more reds), good sound (not terrific ... needs more
depth), and NO MODEM.

Oh, I had two, three modems "installed," in software anyway, on the control panel, but none worked. One you could run the diagonstic test on and it would respond, but wouldn't find a dial tone when i powered up Outlook Express or Internet Explorer. That was the highwater mark. I'm now at the "you can have a picture OR you can attach a modem to the case" point. So I took my main HD out and reinstalled it into the old
case and here I am. Major set back.

Sounds like I need a new modem.

 

[Mac]

I've installed several mobos over the years and I have to agree with the recommendation that you should start with a clean hard drive and bring it up from ground zero. There are just too many system drivers which are mobo specific that it is too easy to get a wrong one loaded which will create a slew of other problems.

One of the most frustrating upgrades was when I attempted to move from an Abit LX6 to an Abit BX6R2. Tried to pull the drive from the old system to avoid having to reload all the applications but must have spent two weeks trying to get the system stable...all for nothing because I eventually had to do fresh install anyway because the registry became corrupted. After starting with a clean drive, the board came up w/o any problems.