A juicy one for you all

[shaunywhite]

I've recently purchased a new motherboard and memory for my pc and I've
swapped all existing components from my old pc to my new one, I've connected
everything up and on booting up I get nothing but a blank screen and an
audible beeping.
The motherboard I've installed in a Chaintech 7vjd, with an athlon 1.4 Gb
chip 512Mb of PC2100 DDR Memory, an existing 8 Gb HDD, a PCI Graphics card,
TNT2 Vanta; cdrom drive and floppy drive.

Any Ideas?

[skhips]

I dont know anything aout DDR memory but those symptoms would normally suggets bad RAM, poorly fitted RAM, or RAM not compatible with motherboard.

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[danleff]

Hi;

Is the board a vjd or vjd2, the latter seems to have two types of memory slots, two that take ddr and two that will take sdram. If you have sdram from your old system (if it is a vjd2, try the old memory, assuming that it is sdram in the 166 pin slots).

Do you have a good power supply?

Try only booting with the essentials installed, fdd, memory, hard drive and keyboard.

Have you checked the seating of the ram and video card?

What are the beep codes?

See the troubleshooting guide at this site, it really helps!

[shaunywhite]

I've checked the motherboard and it only has 2 x ddr slots and the ram is
the correct type, so I can only assume I've got the KJD mobo. I've also
checked the graphics card and it appears to be seated correctly, I think
I'll need to have the components checked individually to make sure they're
working properly. Any other suggestions? Thanks for the help.

[nimnorf2]

Hey Shauny,
I really don't know much but, it seems to me that you said you put an old hard drive into a new system with different mobo. I didn't think you could do that. Seems the new system needs the hard drive to sync with it.
I bet skhips and danleff know better, maybe they didn't see what I thought I saw in your original post.

[nimnorf2]

Hey Shauny,
I really don't know much but, it seems to me that you said you put an old hard drive into a new system with different mobo. I didn't think you could do that withour reformatting the hard drive or somehow changing the old registry and stuff. Seems the new system needs the hard drive to sync with it.
I bet skhips and danleff know better, maybe they didn't see what I thought I saw in your original post. Sorry for the redundancy of the double post.

[This message has been edited by nimnorf2 (edited 07-17-2001).]

[shaunywhite]

Thanks for the advice, I've sorted out the beeping mobo, ddr ram needed
reseating, however, now the machine starts to boot into Windows 98 2nd
Edition and freezes or gives a corrupt display, it also fails to recognise
the DVD Rom when asking for a source of drivers.
On top of this is the small problem of me having a 1.4 Ghz Athlon CPU which
only registers at 1.3 Ghz I've found the dip switches for clock speed
adjustment (of which there are 4 in 1 block), and I get 1.3 Ghz when the
third and fourth switches are on. Any ideas?

[iisbob]

usually when you build a completely new system, or make a major hardware change it's best to start from a fresh instaill of your OS-save you a lot of headaches in the long run. Your old HD has the registry hardware keys for your old system that'll cuase conflicts with the new system hardware.
Windows knows you have such and such DVD, but it was on a different motherboard-so it's confused as to the hardware identity it's getting.
I've tried just " switching " the HD from an old systm to a new one; andf i've never had any success unless the two were nearly identical-sorry, this probably isn't what you wanna hear. http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/rolleyes.gif

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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."

[danleff]

Hi;

iisbob has a good point. You have a via based motherboard that requires special drivers. Was your old board a via based motherboard? See the following Chaintech data on Win 98 that explains some important general information;
http://www.chaintech.dk/QUESTION/WIN98.HTM#About%20Windows%2098

This also speaks of bios updates that may be released soon.

What version windows are you using?

Did you install the drivers that came with the motherboard cd? You will need at least the via 4-in-1 drivers that should have come with the motherboard cd. You can also go to the viatech website to get them. If you are lucky, you will be able to install the drivers and get the system running properly. If not, then you may have to do a clean install, starting with installing the motherboard drivers before anything else.

Have you followed the users manual instructions for setting the dip switches for the processor? 1.3 gig is not bad!

Of course rule #1 before changing the motherboard is to backup your old data, so you can recover it later should problems with the install go wrong. This way you can recover important data with less hassle later on.



[This message has been edited by danleff (edited 07-18-2001).]

[danleff]

Hi;

I just noticed at the Chaintech web site that the cd has a valuepack 2000 cd that has all the drivers you will need for all operating systems. Don't forget the audio drivers! Follow the manual instructions.