Brushfire
01-24-2000, 09:22 PM
Well, i recieved my Athon stuff today.
Asus K7M
Athlon 500 w/fan
Full Tower ATX Case w/ pp-303x 300w PS
Anyways, all assembled, i first power things up. I encounter first problem - It doesnt detect the Viper v770 ultra before post, and i get the notorious series of beeps. I think "Oh great, i trashed the vid card". So i put in a different AGP vid card - A Monster Fusion. Same thing. Put in another random AGP card i had sitting around - Same thing. I think "this is bad....". So i try a 2 meg PCI trident. Boots to post...
This is where i encounter 2nd problem. I look @ the memory indicator, seeing 64 megs (128 meg pc133 dimm is in). I think "ok, ive heard about these boards being sensitive...". I put a 64 meg pc100 dimm in. It reads as 32 megs. Its hard to describe how annoyed i was at this point. I decide to leave it, and try to see what else is wrong/causing the problems.
I enter the bios, and everything seems ok. All this time, i remember seeing little news updates on sites about new k7m bios. I think "that must be it, just a bug, so if i update the bios, it'll be great". So i go to another comptuer, make a bootable floppy, put the necessary files on there. Go back, and start up the system, with the floppy in.
This is where i encounter the NEXT problem. Upon booting from the floppy, the system promptly freezes while playing the beep, causing a loop of half beep sounds, which only add's to my growing headache. "More bugs, i think." So i try to boot to a cdrom - and it WORKS, switch to the floppy, it works too, then begin the flash process. It FAILS halfway thru. So i try it again, praying. It works... "hrmm. that was weird, but everything should be ok now". AGP still doesnt detect, memory still mis-reports, and the system still freezes upon floppy boot.
This is where i was about 20 minutes ago. I had two options. Put the p3 500 back together, or pull a Gene C. Shotgun dealie on this new stuff. I decided that i needed to get online to try to find something. So i shove the v770 ultra and everything back into the p3 500, and fire it up. The video doesnt detect the ultra again (which was working like 3 hours ago), and i get real pissed. I put the Monster Fusion in, and it boots. I get online, and try to figure this out.
This is where i am now.
I have contacted Diamond for the Ultra, and the place i have bought it for the board. Any ideas or creative ways to destroy this board?
Brian
Aka Brushfire
(whoo--- long post.)
Asus K7M
Athlon 500 w/fan
Full Tower ATX Case w/ pp-303x 300w PS
Anyways, all assembled, i first power things up. I encounter first problem - It doesnt detect the Viper v770 ultra before post, and i get the notorious series of beeps. I think "Oh great, i trashed the vid card". So i put in a different AGP vid card - A Monster Fusion. Same thing. Put in another random AGP card i had sitting around - Same thing. I think "this is bad....". So i try a 2 meg PCI trident. Boots to post...
This is where i encounter 2nd problem. I look @ the memory indicator, seeing 64 megs (128 meg pc133 dimm is in). I think "ok, ive heard about these boards being sensitive...". I put a 64 meg pc100 dimm in. It reads as 32 megs. Its hard to describe how annoyed i was at this point. I decide to leave it, and try to see what else is wrong/causing the problems.
I enter the bios, and everything seems ok. All this time, i remember seeing little news updates on sites about new k7m bios. I think "that must be it, just a bug, so if i update the bios, it'll be great". So i go to another comptuer, make a bootable floppy, put the necessary files on there. Go back, and start up the system, with the floppy in.
This is where i encounter the NEXT problem. Upon booting from the floppy, the system promptly freezes while playing the beep, causing a loop of half beep sounds, which only add's to my growing headache. "More bugs, i think." So i try to boot to a cdrom - and it WORKS, switch to the floppy, it works too, then begin the flash process. It FAILS halfway thru. So i try it again, praying. It works... "hrmm. that was weird, but everything should be ok now". AGP still doesnt detect, memory still mis-reports, and the system still freezes upon floppy boot.
This is where i was about 20 minutes ago. I had two options. Put the p3 500 back together, or pull a Gene C. Shotgun dealie on this new stuff. I decided that i needed to get online to try to find something. So i shove the v770 ultra and everything back into the p3 500, and fire it up. The video doesnt detect the ultra again (which was working like 3 hours ago), and i get real pissed. I put the Monster Fusion in, and it boots. I get online, and try to figure this out.
This is where i am now.
I have contacted Diamond for the Ultra, and the place i have bought it for the board. Any ideas or creative ways to destroy this board?
Brian
Aka Brushfire
(whoo--- long post.)