Asus A7N8X Problems

[Dbest]

Hi everyone, I've just received the components for my new PC one of them being the Asus A7N8X mobo. The problem I'm having is that I installed everything by the book the following way:

primary IDE channel dvd(cable select) & hdd(master)
secondary IDE channel cdr (slave)

With this setup only the cdr was recognized, then I set it up in this way:

primary IDE hdd(master)
secondary IDE channel dvd(master) cdr(slave)

Okay, with this setup it did recognized all my hardware, weird . The weird thing is that when the system boots for hdd the screen gets full of 0's and 1's, the hdd is formated from another system. When I try to boot from either the dvd or cdr the system just reboots itself or (once or twice) gives a screen full of 0's and 1's. Any suggestions, I'm pretty sure everything else is hooked up alright, please HELP, I don't want to think I received a faulty mobo.

System specs:
Asus A7N8X mobo
2 x 256 2700 ddr
gainward geforce 4 ti 4200 128mb ddr
toshiba 16x dvd
liteon 48x24x48 cdr

BTW thanks in advance.

[Dbest]

Forgot to mention that I also swithced the memory dimms to different banks to see if it was the memory. Also tried removing memory dimms and only leaving one dimm of the two. I'll try to clear the cmos and double triple check my setup, since I want to leave an IDE channel exclusively for the cdr. Any suggestions, is there something else I need to do??? Or do you recommend RMA the mobo . Any help will be appreciated .

[ragtop]

Hmm..... that's a strange one. Have you tried booting the board from floppy??

Also - does the board go through the full POST sequence normally before you get the bootup problem??

[Dbest]

Ok I haven't tried to boot from a floopy yet, I think I'll do that right now and let you know. I think that it does past the whole POST sequence. 01 01 all over the screen gotta see it to believe it. Will let you know how everything turns out.

[Dbest]

It does boot from floopy, I'm going to change a couple of jumpers I think there's a configuration I haven't tried out. Do you think that I should clear the cmos just in case ?

[Dbest]

Okay now I was able to have the mobo recognize the dvd and the hdd on the primary ide channel, but it just takes a loooong time just to detect the ide devices. Then when it's going to boot it does nothing at all and I mean NOTHING. It doesn't even boots from floopy . I'm going to clear the CMOS to see if it does something . Any ideas, do you think the mobo has gone kaput, should I RMA'd please some advice please (soob..soob).

[Dbest]

I feel like I'm talking to myself here anyway tried evrything, CMOS clearing, jumper settings. I think the mobo is messed up, I think that the IDE channels are damaged or something. Probably going to RMA it but, before that I'll take it to a friend of mine that's a technician see what he tells me . It seems this are going to be not a very good christmas .

[littlebird]

That sucks man.!!
It seems you have tried everything!!!

Did you checked the BIOS and loaded the default settings?
Maybe the memory timings are way too high for that memory you ordered or something like that! Because 010101's sounds to me like memory problems (like a parity error or something!).

Try even underclocking the proccessor! Who knows.!?!

Good luck..!

[yclyde]

I've got the same board but have never encountered any problems.

Everythings ok in device mgr?

Did you mention os?

I know it can be frustrating, but I would try from scratch and double check each everything again. Wish I could offer more help.

[Inanis]

Just a guess, but try a different video card.
Try setting the video card down to 4x ( if you have it running at 8x)