- Joined
- Mar 1, 2003
- Location
- Georgia
I have assembeled the parts of a new system.
A7N8X (ver. 1.04) 1001.E BIOS, 2100+ XP, 512 MD Corsair PC 3200 C2 XMS DDR, WD 80GB HDD 8MB cache, Lite on CDRW 48-24-48, Antec True Power 430, Chaintech TI-4200 8X 64MB DDR, SK-7 and SmartFan II (AS III), Enermax CS-10181 Case with seven 80 mm case fans, and Windows XP Home with SP1.
According to the Hardware monitor in the BIOS the MB is 25C and the CPU is 50C at idle. Seems like the SmartFan II does not push enough air.
The start up screen shows the WD HDD correctly as the primary master, and the CDRW as the secondary master, but Windows can’t find any drives! Can’t load windows. However, once Windows did complete part of its setup, then did something and no more progress.
Under the Advanced Chipset Features of BIOS:
CPU ext. freq, = 133
CPU freq. multi. Setting = menu
CPU freq. multi. = 13.0
Sys. Perf. = user defined
CPU interface = optimal
Mem freq. = sync
Resulting freq. = 133
Mem. Timings = user defined
SDRAM active precharge delay = 7
SDRAM RAS to CAS delay = 3
SDRAM RAS precharge delay = 3
SDRAM CAS Latency = 2.5
FSB spread spectrum = 0.50%
AGP spread spectrum = disabled
CPU Vcore setting = menu
CPU Vcore = 1.600v
DDR = 2.6v
AGP = 1.5v
AGP 8x support = enabled
I can’t flash the BIOS either. I have made a bootable floppy copied AWDFLASH.EXE and an8b1002.bin to it. Place the disc in the A drive started the computer, the A DOS prompt comes up, I get the AWDFLASH file to execute, put in the an8b1002.bin to flash, save the old BIOS file as old.bin, then it asks for me to select “Y” to flash or whatever . . … nothing more occurs. I have waited several time for up to 35 minutes.
I have been at this now for about 10 hours. I am out of ideas.
Thanks in advance to those who offer help
A7N8X (ver. 1.04) 1001.E BIOS, 2100+ XP, 512 MD Corsair PC 3200 C2 XMS DDR, WD 80GB HDD 8MB cache, Lite on CDRW 48-24-48, Antec True Power 430, Chaintech TI-4200 8X 64MB DDR, SK-7 and SmartFan II (AS III), Enermax CS-10181 Case with seven 80 mm case fans, and Windows XP Home with SP1.
According to the Hardware monitor in the BIOS the MB is 25C and the CPU is 50C at idle. Seems like the SmartFan II does not push enough air.
The start up screen shows the WD HDD correctly as the primary master, and the CDRW as the secondary master, but Windows can’t find any drives! Can’t load windows. However, once Windows did complete part of its setup, then did something and no more progress.
Under the Advanced Chipset Features of BIOS:
CPU ext. freq, = 133
CPU freq. multi. Setting = menu
CPU freq. multi. = 13.0
Sys. Perf. = user defined
CPU interface = optimal
Mem freq. = sync
Resulting freq. = 133
Mem. Timings = user defined
SDRAM active precharge delay = 7
SDRAM RAS to CAS delay = 3
SDRAM RAS precharge delay = 3
SDRAM CAS Latency = 2.5
FSB spread spectrum = 0.50%
AGP spread spectrum = disabled
CPU Vcore setting = menu
CPU Vcore = 1.600v
DDR = 2.6v
AGP = 1.5v
AGP 8x support = enabled
I can’t flash the BIOS either. I have made a bootable floppy copied AWDFLASH.EXE and an8b1002.bin to it. Place the disc in the A drive started the computer, the A DOS prompt comes up, I get the AWDFLASH file to execute, put in the an8b1002.bin to flash, save the old BIOS file as old.bin, then it asks for me to select “Y” to flash or whatever . . … nothing more occurs. I have waited several time for up to 35 minutes.
I have been at this now for about 10 hours. I am out of ideas.
Thanks in advance to those who offer help