K7S5A Pro installation problems

I've done plenty of K7S5A installations, this one is my first Pro V5 and
I'm not off to a very good start.. Help needed please!

Here's the parts:
K7S5A Pro V5
AMD 1900+ XP (Palomino) (box fan)
512mb Kingston PC2700 memory stick
40Gb matrox hd
Geforce FX 5200 128mt w TV-OUT
Liteon 48x burner

I installed everything in to casing, connected wires and fired up. To my
delight BIOS screen popped up and the machine purred (well the amd box
fan yelled..). I set the basic settings from the bios, 133/133, disabled
modem set boot from CD.

Now I rebooted, placed Windows XP cd in and that wen't well as well.
After I pressed enter at the "Start Windows install" the machine started
reading the CD and then the screen freezed.

I booted and the machine came on, but no video. After doing cmos reset,
booting, battery out-back-in, boot, still same thing. Machine powers on,
fans start rolling, but that's it. The CD drives light keeps flashing
and if I try to open it, it pops up half way and goes back in (???).

So, I disconnected all IDE cables + power cables to drivers and booted.
No video, machine is on. I even went so far as to taking the memory
block out. No help.

I'm guessing either the new gfx card is busted or the motherboard itself
is defective. CD drive behaviour suggests it could be the mobo (?). If
anyone has seen these symptoms, please help! Thanks!

> I'm guessing either the new gfx card is busted or the motherboard itself
> is defective. CD drive behaviour suggests it could be the mobo (?). If
> anyone has seen these symptoms, please help! Thanks!

Just tested the gfx card on another machine, works fine. So it has to be
something else with the K7S5A pro.

"It's possible that your mobo is grounding out against the case. Try
removing it from the machine and place it on a sheet of paper or other non
conductive material, then booting it up. Mine did the same damned thing.

Tannish Virus wrote:

> "It's possible that your mobo is grounding out against the case. Try
> removing it from the machine and place it on a sheet of paper or other non
> conductive material, then booting it up. Mine did the same damned thing.
>
>

All readythere. I've taken out the whole mobo out of the casing and
tried booting it with only agp card and the memory in. nothing. Then
without memory. nothing.

I realised the cpu on that old box is only 250w, but with only agp card
and mobo on it should give me video?

I guess next step is to put in another cpu?

Protter wrote:

> Tannish Virus wrote:
>
>> "It's possible that your mobo is grounding out against the case. Try
>> removing it from the machine and place it on a sheet of paper or other
>> non
>> conductive material, then booting it up. Mine did the same damned thing.
>>
>>
>
> All readythere. I've taken out the whole mobo out of the casing and
> tried booting it with only agp card and the memory in. nothing. Then
> without memory. nothing.
>
> I realised the cpu on that old box is only 250w, but with only agp card
> and mobo on it should give me video?
>
> I guess next step is to put in another cpu?

Ok, after switching CPU found the cause. I took 2100+ from my server and
placed it in. Swing - everything works!.. This means I'm going to kill
my friend who was trying to sell me that busted 1900+...

Damn. Wasted 2 hours on this, only because the cpu was toast.

"Protter" <> wrote in message
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> Protter wrote:

> Damn. Wasted 2 hours on this, only because the cpu was toast.


LOL Ain't that a bitch? Beats spending days on a machine, only to find
out the mobo was whipped.

Can you boot into Safe mode? Does the video card work in Safe mode or not?
Try.
Beacon

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>
> > I'm guessing either the new gfx card is busted or the motherboard itself
> > is defective. CD drive behaviour suggests it could be the mobo (?). If
> > anyone has seen these symptoms, please help! Thanks!
>
> Just tested the gfx card on another machine, works fine. So it has to be
> something else with the K7S5A pro.