asus a7v133

[aapril]

i have purchased two a7v133 motherboards in the past week form tccomputers.
i get the same problem from both motherboards
the post up is fine (one beep), reads all drives, read pci buses, then locks up.
i cant get it to boot to a floppy, hd or cd.
the only items connected to motherboard are as follows
amd athalon mp 1.2ghz
viking 256mb pc133 dimm cl3
3d video card(agp 2x)
maxtor ata 100 hard drive
creative cd-rom
3.5 floppy
standard keyboard

bios is set with a: drive as 1.44
i have tried different boot sequences in boot bios menu

i have tried three floppies, various cables, different hard drives,
pci vga card, different dimm chips.

[solo-pc-tech]

Hello aapril,

I grew up in Ellisville, MS.

What kind of power supply do you have?
Have you tried removing the IDE cables?
What about the LED connector cables? I have seen problems with these due to shorting. You don't need any of the LED cables. Just use a 1/8" flatblade screwdriver to short the two PWR SW pins on the connector panel jumper block.

On stubborn systems like this, I remove the mainboard from the case, put it on top of the box it came in, put in a graphics card, attach a power supply I keep just for this purpose, one stick of RAM, and a keyboard.
If it boots normally and displays floppy controller error, then attach a floppy.

But I have had PCI IRQ problems with three recent ASUS boards including this model. I read somewhere that ASUS uses an ASIC for ACPI. Well, it doesn't seem to work very well. Have you tried disabling the COM ports, parallel port and USB controllers in the BIOS? And set Plug and Play OS to None.
Disable the onboard audio.

Mark

[aapril]

tried what you recommended with mother board, vga card, one ram chip, and floppy disconnected,and no case attachements.
system posts, then i get a floppy error,
attached floppy rebooted, system still locks
after pci listing.
i received email from asus, and said that a7v133 motherboard does not support, amd1.2g mp processor and to replace it with a amd 1.2g processor