Cant get AW8 past POST

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IoloShamino

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Just set up components and now I can't get it past POST.

Here's my setup:

Pentium D 805
A-Bit AW8
1gb GSkill DDR2 667
Pioneer DVD-R
Seagate ATA HDD
Antec TruePower 2 550W

Couldn't get past POST, so I unplugged all cables including PSU to mobo and reset cmos jumper. Now I'm getting POST error 6f (check floppy controller) and I don't have a floppy drive ATM... I'm going to pick one up around 11 tomorrow and see if it works, but I doubt it. It shouldn't be hanging on this, regardless. I can't get into BIOS because it gets to the memory check and won't let me enter bios setup... keyboard seems to be without power. It has to be the motherboard/bios. I have flashing SW and update on a CD, but no way to load CD if it won't get past memory check. I've reseated the RAM and i'm about to try it in slot 2 just for shits... any ideas?


UPDATE: Left it unplugged and it booted to POST 49, Ram check. Then it hung, and restarted system. Moved ram to slots 2 and 3 and same problem. Occasionally will hang on 52, writing 0 to physical memory.
 
Tried a hard CMOS reset (disconnect everything but RAM and CPU, including battery and then short jumper) and it went back to an error 6F, but after leaving it powered down for about a minute reverted back to the error 49. I'm wondering what else I can do. Posting on Abit forums and looking for a way to bypass POST. I have a feeling if I could get into the bios, i could fix it... when I can make it display POST info it says the CPU is clocked at 533. Initially what caused the problem was that it was set at 2ghz (100fsb) so I upped the FSB to 133 and boom, error. I made sure to set the ram multiplyer to make the 133fsb work on 667ddr2, but I think that is the problem now, wrong freq.
 
IoloShamino said:
Tried a hard CMOS reset (disconnect everything but RAM and CPU, including battery and then short jumper) and it went back to an error 6F, but after leaving it powered down for about a minute reverted back to the error 49. I'm wondering what else I can do. Posting on Abit forums and looking for a way to bypass POST. I have a feeling if I could get into the bios, i could fix it... when I can make it display POST info it says the CPU is clocked at 533. Initially what caused the problem was that it was set at 2ghz (100fsb) so I upped the FSB to 133 and boom, error. I made sure to set the ram multiplyer to make the 133fsb work on 667ddr2, but I think that is the problem now, wrong freq.
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I had a similar problem with mine to start with, unplug it and pop the battery out so it clears the cmos after a while (using the jumper didnt make a difference). this cleared it for me,, get the bios updated as soon as you can.

I also tried booting with a pci graphics card and actually plugging in floppy drive in (it did post doing this but would crash). finally only having one stick of ram in sorted things as well, that and clearing the cmos.

all was fine after updating the bios.

also note that if its on the same bios mine started on it will detect ur processor as a Pentium 5, lol
 
:) it is the same version. Detects a Pentium 5 2.6ghz but clocks 2 cores at 2ghz.

Thanks alot. BTW. I had just popped the battery out like 15 minutes before I read this... gonna leave it out for about 30 or so. I have bios update and flash util already on cd waiting on me to get windows on heh. Are prime 95 and superpi about equal in stress testing?
 
okay... left battery out, unplugged both power connectors, unplugged from wall and let it sit for about two hours. When I reconnected everything and plugged the battery back in, same thing. It is setting the FSB to something in the twenties. It freezes on memory test of post(49) and resets, but sometimes passes to 52 and even lets me into bios. When I finish in the bios, it reverts back to an error 6f regardless of whether I save or not.

I'm getting pretty frustrated and worried that I actually -am- resetting the cmos and I have hardware issues. Until this point I've maintained hope that something was keeping power to the CMOS. I'm going to take battery out and leave unplugged while I sleep tonight if I don't get it working by then. After that, I'll just have to RMA... but I know it worked when I first plugged it in and it was running with a 100fsb. F8 at the start will not let me bypass to flash to update the bios.

Please, anyone... I'm out of ideas. :(
 
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