Epox 8kha Boot problem

[putch]

Hi, I just got a whole bunch of new hardware. here it is:

epox 8kha
amd 1.33 socket A 266
thermalright sk-6 h/f
512 mb crucial pc2100 DDR-RAM

when i try to boot all i get is an FF on the LED panel. which the manual says is "booting" nothing happens and my CD-R and DVD lights stay solid. I've read on several boards that numerous ppl have had this problem. and that they just returned their mobo. i can think of 2 things causing this.

1- revision #. some are 1.0 some are 1.1, i dont know what i have, how can i check.

2- power supplly, i'm still using my old un-AMD approved 300w ps. I have an enermax 430w coming in a day or two, so maybe that will fix things.

anyone have this problem or have suggestions.

thanks

~liam

 

[wild_andy_c]

If the P80P debug panel states FF, your monitor should have initiated and all other sorts of stuff gone on.

After debugs displays "26", the monitor should display your graphics card details and then continue onto the BIOS details. This seems odd.

Have you tried changing the jumper to 100Mhz FSB and running the chip slower initially - it could be that the board is sensing your chip incorrectly and applying a Palomino voltage - hence no boot.

Colour in all of the L7 bridges, change to 100Mhz FSB by the jumper next to the AGP slot and have another go. Let me know what happens.

The only problem that I found with this board is that it would not load my installation of windows 2000 (a KT133a based install) , so I had to re-install and also it wouldn't boot windows 98 first edition, although second edition and Me worked fine.

It is with no doubt the best beginners DDR overclocking board out there - everything is in the BIOS and it is just oh so stable. You could go as far as to say that if it boots and loads windows - it is stable and won't crash thereafter.

I got the beast up at 163Mhz FSB at the moment and it loves it - just it won't let my USB work at that.

People were unimpressed with KT266, but this newly tweaked version gives bandwidth only 4% less in my benches to the 8K7A which is good going.

My board is version 1.1. If you have the 0523 BIOS or greater - you have the rev 1.1

 

[putch]

for the first 30 min or so i was set to 100mhz. and it still wouldn't do this. and when i said boot i should have said post. I get no signal from the vid card. (tried 2 dff ones, pci and agp). It just says FF from the get go. hopefully a new PS will arrive today.


~liam