Help needed with old 775 MB

[funkydmunky]

I have this MB and have had no luck in getting a post
https://motherboarddb.com/motherboards/542/

Testing bare bones. Dual core xeon. One stick of DDR2-800 and GPU.
GPU and CPU fans go full blast when I power up. They stay running full until I power off. No post.
I have tried two different ram sticks. Swapped the GPU. Reset CMOS.
Any ideas?

 

[Starfalcon]

Likely the chipset died, that was pretty common on those strikers. I have a striker one that has a dead chipset, mainly kept it due to the miles of copper heatpipes they used.

 

[funkydmunky]

Likely the chipset died, that was pretty common on those strikers. I have a striker one that has a dead chipset, mainly kept it due to the miles of copper heatpipes they used.

I hope not. Such a gorgeous board! Literally the nicest board I have ever laid hands on.

 

[AgrFan]

Try changing the CMOS battery. Reset the BIOS to defaults. I had this happen to a HP pre-built once.

 

[auntjemima]

Erm... weren't the xeons 771 and not 775 and you had to do some tape trick on the back of them?

Been a long time.

 

[pendragon1]

yeah, what "xeon" and is it even compatible?
the battery is worth the $1(for 2) that it will cost too. people scoff at that but ive seen it plenty of times.

 

[funkydmunky]

yeah, what "xeon" and is it even compatible?
the battery is worth the $1(for 2) that it will cost too. people scoff at that but ive seen it plenty of times.

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...sor-e3110-6m-cache-3-00-ghz-1333-mhz-fsb.html

 

[funkydmunky]

Try changing the CMOS battery. Reset the BIOS to defaults. I had this happen to a HP pre-built once.

I removed the battery as that has worked for me in the past but did nothing. Will grab a known working battery and try. I kinda forgot about it and let other PC's I'm working on take my focus. I'll dig it out again and try.

 

[funkydmunky]

yeah, what "xeon" and is it even compatible?

I inherited it with the RAM striped and a humongous heatsink that one of its crappy plastic retention clips broken. It was in a huge awesome server case so that is why I took it. Was obviously a functioning system at some point.