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Tran

02-09-1999, 08:22 PM

I just bought a new BX Pro M747 Motherboard and a Celeron 333 to upgrade my old P100. My motherboard have 8M APG built in, so I just put 32M RAM, the processor and Video in and power on but nothing happened on screen, only the processor's fan spining,
Anyone could help Please....

Sky

02-09-1999, 11:14 PM

can you hear any beeps when it boots?

Tran

02-10-1999, 03:24 AM

Thanks Sky, I already fixed that problem by changing the jumper setting of the BIOS from Clear mode to Normal mode. There are other problems:
I can hardly hear the sound from my computer only can hear it by using headphone
and the floppy disk doesn't work.
Please help me out1
Thanks

Isos

02-10-1999, 04:06 AM

If you can hear the sound using headphones, then you need to check if your speakers are amplified. The built-in sound in the motherboard does not come with an amplifier.

As for the floppy not working, does it light up if you access the drive - like DIR A:?

If you are using Windows 95 or 98, bootup to SAFE MODE - Command Prompt only. Place a disk (one that you know work with other computer), and issue a DIR A:. If the drive does not spin at all, check the power supply and the cable.

If you can access the drive in DOS, but not in Windows - Check your System Manager.

GVolosky

02-10-1999, 10:23 AM

Is the cable flipped the wrong way - Floppies are funny about where #1 pin is - not all are on the power cable side....
G

Tran

02-11-1999, 01:05 AM

I checked the data cable it looks alright, pin 1 go to pin 1
I saw it spinning but just can not access drive A even in DOS mode.
Thanks

Cristi

02-26-1999, 05:50 PM

Just one more advice about the floppy cable, usualy it has 5 connectors on it: one at one end to connect to the mobo (or IDE adapter) and two pairs of connectors for the two floppys that can be connected. Be carefull that in the middle is the B floppy and at the other end (after a twisting in the cable) is the A floppy.
Make sure you set up in the BIOS the floppy unit (A or B) according to the connector you used to plug the floppy. If you use the other one, it happenes like you said: doesn't work.