K7D Won't post

[Sumi]

Hi!

I've bought a k7d a few days ago (brand new)..


I've put in a 2600+ barton, + 512megs of corsair xms pc4000 unbuffered ddr (to ddr1)

hit the pwbutton, and the dled locks at: red-green-red-red (from the top to the bottom)

I tought that the problem is that i need reg ddr-s, so i've boght a stick of that as well.. put it in.. dled still locks..

so i thought, the barton is the problem, so i've put in an 1800+ palo.. dled still locks..

any idea from anyone?

thanks

Sumi

 

[mosin]

It doesn't like the memory is my bet.

 

[Sumi]

But this memory was working in another k7d for years..

 

[DanK]

red-green-red-red

From the manual:

Memory Detection Test

- Testing onboard memory size. The D-LED will hang if the memory module is damaged or not installed properly.


So, make sure it's inserted well, or try it in a different slot.

 

[Sumi]

Yes, i've already done that as well.. still the same problem

 

[Vertigo Acid]

MSI has a very liberal RMA program, so contact them and they'll replace, almost no questions asked.

 

[stevieg]

flip the FSB jumper to 100mhz. it should post, go into bios and change the bios from auto-detect memory speed to a some VERY lax timings, power down and put the jumper back at 133mhz and reboot. go into bios again and play with timings until it doesnt post, start over and use the previous setting, continue until you've found the fastest timings the board will allow.

if this doesnt work, grab an old stick of pc2100 or pc2700 and stick it in slot 1, and move your stick to slot 2, then go into bios and do what i mentioned above.

Its a long time problem with the MPX chipsets because they dont like the newer ram, thats why if you look on msi, Gigbyte, tyan's websites none of the newer ram is on their compatability list

steve

 

[Sumi]

Thanks for your help folks...

I sent it back to RMA, and they have fixed it.. anyway, i've traded it to a PC-DL deluxe, and my cpu, to a 2.8 xeon..

so that's what happened, now i'm running this thing at 3.4ghz, i think it will be a bit faster if i'll have enough money, to buy the second cpu, than the dual athlon mps ever could be...

before i've rma-d it, i've tried it with 10 kind of reg ecc ddr, and 20 kind of unbuff ddr.. non of them made the mobo to post..

even tried with 5-6 xp-s and mp-s...

i think they have replaced the bios chip..

anyway, i'm a littlebit sad about that i've bought a mobo for ~250USD, and it wasn't working.. i've expected more from a ws/server mobo...

however the pc-dl is very stable, and ran for the first time (with my good old corsair twinx pc4000 1gb), so there is a happy end of the story

ps: every part is/was brand new...

 

[Pixelbound]

Even though the issue was resolved, I'm bumping this because it has to do with an issue that MSI doesn't like to advertise about the K7D.

I'll post my own horror story in a bit, but to sum it up: Quite a few of K7D's that hit the market have power issues when being used with the Barton core. MSI has not made this known to the public. The only way to solve the issue is to RMA the board and hope you get one with the problem solved. It has nothing to do with your RAM