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Old December 5th, 2003, 03:50 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Motherboard Problems

Alright, so I picked up a new motherboard a couple weeks ago and slapped a celery 566 into it. I rebooted my computer a while ago and didn't notice that my CD drive wasn't detected. So I rebooted it again today, after fixing the drive cable, and it won't make it past the POST screen. Any suggestions as to how I could fix it?

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Radisys PW810 Motherboard (It was uber-cheap)
Celeron 566
128 Megs ram
20 gig Maxtor
80 Seagate
DVD-rom Drive
Matrox Millenium PCI video card
SMC network card
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Old December 5th, 2003, 11:58 AM     #2 (permalink)
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Come on, someone's gotta be able to help me out.
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Old December 5th, 2003, 12:18 PM     #3 (permalink)
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Will it boot if you unplugg the CD drive.
Can you get into setup.
Someone brought me a computer that was doing that.
The floppy cable was plugged in backwards.
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check out that the ide cable, the red strip should be at the same side as the red cable of the power cable....
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Old December 6th, 2003, 04:46 AM     #5 (permalink)
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Even with the cables inserted properly, the machine will post, but will not get to the boot stage.

Anymore ideas floating about?
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any beeps? or patern of beeps?

Does it displays the boot up screen?
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I loaded an older bios release and that seemed to fix the problem.

Thanks for your help.
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Old December 7th, 2003, 01:54 AM     #8 (permalink)
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its weird when that happens, but I ordered some "slot t" tualatin slockets for Dell Gx-1's...when I build my old dells I always put the newest bios on em, which is "A10".....strangely the slocket wouldnt work till I went back to A07, lol....I never would have had a clue 'cept I read it in a reseller rating review, lol.

I also had tried a socket 370 fcpga to tualatin adapter which didnt work, but after I went to the A07 bios I went back and tried it and then IT worked, lol.

Strange cuz they always tell ya to go to the latest bios
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