Upgrade gone wrong

[concptimg]

I have just bought a new PII 350 Mhz chip and a pc chips MB m370. I purchased a new ATX case and power supply also. After putting this together with an ATI 8mb all-in-wonder card I started the comp. It starts up then lights up the HD for 2 seconds then nothing further. After checking it out I found they ship the board with the BIOS reset jumper on Reset, so i changed it to Normal mode. I also checked other jumpers to find they had the SDRAM set to 66mhz and I have 100 so i changed that as well but no improvement. I have just learned that they have an update for the bios but since the comp. doesn't get that far would it make sense to even try that or is there something I am missing. Also the motherboard had to be mounted using small risers that came with the case to be level with the cutouts. I do not see any damage to the board nor any place for any shorts to be occuring. Anyone see this problem before? Thanks for any help you can give.

[skhips]

I would insulate the motherboard from the case with a piece of card or something similar and boot up with only RAM, CPU and Graphics card installed (NO HDD) and see if it can reach the first part of the post.

Seems unusal that the mobo would be set to rest the BIOS - any thoughts or corrections on that anyone.

Also, I didnt think you could set the RAM speed, it sounds like what you are changing is the mobo speed which would effect the CPU speed.

If the above doesnt work try and obtain a set of known working parts to try para 1 again, if ok then swap one at a time with your parts to identify the fault (faulty ram / wrongly installed can also give these results).

[ranchdog]

Check your jumper for the CPU clock multiplier and make sure it is set at 3.5x Luck. (FSB OF 100Mhz is correct)

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[This message has been edited by ranchdog (edited 08-02-2001).]

[danleff]

Hi;

Oh yeh, one of my mobos came with the bios jumper shipped at the reset position. Said so right in the users manual - warned you to chnage the jumper. Can't remember if it was the Powercolor or Pc Chips board I have.

Also, try to make sure that you use plastic stand-offs to mount the board, metal screws can cause shorts - seen it before. At the very least, use insulated washers when using any screws to mount the board - preferably the plastic stand-offs only, if possible. On one board I had, needed to use insulated washers on both sides of the mounting screws to stabilize the board where plastic stand-offs couldn't be used.