Excuses dat het in het engels is, ik heb het onderstaande namelijk ook geschreven voor andere fora.
Recently I've built a system quite similar to that of the topicstarter:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
Mainboard: Abit in9 32x-max
Cooler: Zalman CNPS 8000
Memory: Corsair 1gb (4x1gb) pc6400, DDR2
Graphic card: Asus EN8800GTX
PSU: Antec Earthwatts 500 (came with the Antec Sonata III)
I'm having symptons such as no video signal and the blue flashing lights, the POST I get is 9.0.
So this is what I've tried so far:
Removed all additional devices, leaving the system only with a PSU, CPU, 1 stick of DRAM and the graphic card.
Quadrupple checked all the cables. (8pins to CPU, 24pins to Mainboard, 2x 6 pins to graphiccard)
Tried different sticks of DRAM.
Tried using another working graphic card (ATi Radeon x850XT) Same result: POST 9.0, blue flashing lights.
Tested the Asus 8800GTX in another system (worked)
Resetted the CMOS in any possible way. (EZ-CMOS, jumpers and removing battery) Same result: POST 9.0, blue flashing lights.
REPLACED the old bios chip by a new one that my supplier sent to me. They said it was a known problem and that there was a 99% chance that the BIOS was the cause. (outdated apparently) Which had me wondering why they hadn't sent me a proper chip in the first place if they knew...
Resetted the new bios chip. (EZCMOS) Same result: POST 9.0, blue flashing lights.
And as a last resort, I have tried the barebone system on a piece of cardboard with anti-static plastic on top. Which resulted in a very high "tone". It was really more a shriek than a tone I'd say. (I guess since the speaker wasn't connected, the mainboard has its own ways of beeping?) It POSTed code 9.0 again, and I turned of the system a.s.a.p. because the high tone had me thinking something was very very wrong. Blue flashing lights were still there.
Powered up the barebone system without the graphic card. This made the high tone go away. So apparently that's related, but I'm quite reluctant to stick my graphic card in the pci-e slot again in a barebone system. Still POST code 9.0 and blue flashing lights btw.
All these test setups didn't result in a video signal.
So basically I think this narrows it down to:
-a dead CPU. (which came new out of the box like the rest)
-some PSU problems. (PSU is new as well)
-my supplier messed up and sent me the wrong chip. Newest one should be with Bios ver. 13. I don't know if there's anyway to check that.
*update*
Ik ben er overigens achter dat de hoge toon tijdens het barebone opstarten van m'n systeem veroorzaakt was door mijn nalatigheid. Had de 2x6pins externe pluggen voor de videokaart niet aangesloten.
Zijn er nog Tweakers met goede ideeen?
Recently I've built a system quite similar to that of the topicstarter:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850
Mainboard: Abit in9 32x-max
Cooler: Zalman CNPS 8000
Memory: Corsair 1gb (4x1gb) pc6400, DDR2
Graphic card: Asus EN8800GTX
PSU: Antec Earthwatts 500 (came with the Antec Sonata III)
I'm having symptons such as no video signal and the blue flashing lights, the POST I get is 9.0.
So this is what I've tried so far:
Removed all additional devices, leaving the system only with a PSU, CPU, 1 stick of DRAM and the graphic card.
Quadrupple checked all the cables. (8pins to CPU, 24pins to Mainboard, 2x 6 pins to graphiccard)
Tried different sticks of DRAM.
Tried using another working graphic card (ATi Radeon x850XT) Same result: POST 9.0, blue flashing lights.
Tested the Asus 8800GTX in another system (worked)
Resetted the CMOS in any possible way. (EZ-CMOS, jumpers and removing battery) Same result: POST 9.0, blue flashing lights.
REPLACED the old bios chip by a new one that my supplier sent to me. They said it was a known problem and that there was a 99% chance that the BIOS was the cause. (outdated apparently) Which had me wondering why they hadn't sent me a proper chip in the first place if they knew...
Resetted the new bios chip. (EZCMOS) Same result: POST 9.0, blue flashing lights.
And as a last resort, I have tried the barebone system on a piece of cardboard with anti-static plastic on top. Which resulted in a very high "tone". It was really more a shriek than a tone I'd say. (I guess since the speaker wasn't connected, the mainboard has its own ways of beeping?) It POSTed code 9.0 again, and I turned of the system a.s.a.p. because the high tone had me thinking something was very very wrong. Blue flashing lights were still there.
Powered up the barebone system without the graphic card. This made the high tone go away. So apparently that's related, but I'm quite reluctant to stick my graphic card in the pci-e slot again in a barebone system. Still POST code 9.0 and blue flashing lights btw.
All these test setups didn't result in a video signal.
So basically I think this narrows it down to:
-a dead CPU. (which came new out of the box like the rest)
-some PSU problems. (PSU is new as well)
-my supplier messed up and sent me the wrong chip. Newest one should be with Bios ver. 13. I don't know if there's anyway to check that.
*update*
Ik ben er overigens achter dat de hoge toon tijdens het barebone opstarten van m'n systeem veroorzaakt was door mijn nalatigheid. Had de 2x6pins externe pluggen voor de videokaart niet aangesloten.
Zijn er nog Tweakers met goede ideeen?
[ Voor 1% gewijzigd door Verwijderd op 20-01-2008 20:56 . Reden: Sommige zinnen waren onduidelijk vanwege onbrekende context, ik heb het namelijk eerst in een ander forum (abit usa) geschreven. ]