ASUS A7M266 wont boot up

iceman63 · June 28th, 2002, 03:35 PM

Hi folks I am new to this forum and to building computers. I am taking my 1st stab at building a pc and I bought an ASUS A7M266 with a XP 1600 1.4 GHZ processor I have hooked everything up and when I try to boot up the system it goes through the 1st screen that says what bios im using then goes to a screen listing my PCI devices. After my video card which is a PCI voodoo 3 card it just gives me a flashing cursor at the bottom of the screen and nothing will happen? I have also tried to use a Inno 3d Tornado GeForce MX PCI card but it does not even turn the monitor on. Any help or advice is greatly appreciated Thanks

DutchMaster · June 28th, 2002, 03:59 PM

Hi there and welcome to Techimo!!

I don't have so good news for you. The BIOS only supports too AMD 1400Mhz. You need to flash the BIOS to at least version 1005. To be able to flash the BIOS you need to get atleast access to the diskette drive.

I would advise to try running on jumpers and set it to the 1.2 GHz according to the manual. I hope this will get you further in the bootproxcess.

If BIOS version 1005 or higher is installed already, I would advise to clear the CMOS (look in the manual how to do this). I did this to and my PC started without a problem after doing that.

Good luck and let us know how it went

PS sorry for the late reply.

DutchMaster · June 28th, 2002, 04:03 PM

All you can get for this board:
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/amd760/a7m266/

See the index.txt for more details.

**EvilRick** · June 28th, 2002, 04:07 PM

EDIT - Nevermind, Dutch has the answer.

iceman63 · June 28th, 2002, 04:15 PM

Thanks guys I will go into jumper mode and see if I can at least get it to the drives so I can flash the bios. I will let yas know if it works Thanks for your help

vesther · June 29th, 2002, 08:18 PM

The latest version of the A7M266 is Version 1006, in which I'm running right now. I'm currently using an AMD Athlon XP 1900+ and with Version 1006, the Motherboard *should* support Processors up to 1800 MHz in "Real" Clock Speed.

Although there is a Version 1005 available, I highly recommend that you get Version 1006, but it's your personal opinion that does all the decision-making, but having a newer version of the firmware can't hurt either.

DutchMaster · June 30th, 2002, 11:34 AM

Actually the 1007 is the latest, but 1006 will do fine. I don't know if they adjusted the temp issue already in the latest BIOS update. The problem is that the temps shown in the BIOS setup and in a hardware monitor like mbm5, are about 10C higher then the real temp. So it seems like the CPU is running quite hot.

iceman63 · June 30th, 2002, 01:00 PM

I have switched it to jumper mode and changed the dip switches then went into cmos and reset the frequency and nothing has worked. I still cannot get to the floppy. I am thinking it does not like my ram or something, not sure. My ram is a generic brand called ark. It shows it. it is pc 2100 DDR 256 MB. I just dont know what i'm doing wrong