8rda+ problems

well........ I just bought a 2500+ barton and put it into my 8rda+ system that was workin just fine ..............tried to power up and no boot nada , So I thought a little and then removed the HS and saw that my spacer was layin accross the L4 bridges so I removed and tried again..........it appears that I crapped the bios ...............I've put the XP 2000+ back in abd I can only get the damn thing to boot 12.5 x 100 if I try to set it back to 133 the bios craps out............any Ideas .............









xp2000+ 8rda+
512 meg memory ....I think it's sanyo
2-40gig WD HD's
gforce3 ti200 128meg
win XP

Did you smell any buring when you took your heatsink off?

nope .............but since this is the 2nd 8rda+ board I've got'n that's had problems I think I will go back to Abit .............

hmm wierd, i never have problems with mine, i just rmaed my epox, so i could get the newest stepping, rev 1.1 , C1. now the board supports 400fsb, i am waiting on my cpu now, so i can get the newest stepping AQXCA stepping for my 2500+. ill tell you how it goes, im geting the cpu tomorrow.

well It seems to have cleared up. I took the system compleatly apart and reseated everything including the cpu ............the only thing I can think of was that my Alpha pal 8025 wasn't compleatly install right or wasn't settin on the cpu right because after messin arround with the 2000+ and getting the bios to work rght i NOW HAVE THE 2500+ IN HERE.............and it seems to be workin

hmmm... well if you have problems geting to the bios just try this..... hit restart and tap insert till it goes to the bios