Re: P4VMM2 with power,no video

Howdy,

You may be seeing the SAME problem that I just saw with my motherboard
and a fellow Google reviewer (Paul) helped me greatly to solve - - You
may be trying to boot your machine with fast memory installed, but
your motherboard may have the slowest RAM settings enabled by
default. First thing to do is remove your memory from the motherboard
and then make sure you have your PC speaker connected to the
motherboard. If the board boots up and then signals a tone from the
speaker or a series of 'beeps', then you're halfway there. It means
that your machine's CPU is trying to run from BIOS commands as it
starts up, but it's signalling that there's no memory
installed....that's a good thing.

Next if you have some slower memory DDR2 memory from an older machine
(like PC3200, PC4200, etc) try putting one stick of it in the DIMM1
slot and try booting your machine. You should see a startup screen on
your machine since the slower RAM will be better accepted by the
default BIOS settings that are there now - - you'll eventually have to
set the RAM speed up to the what you new memory is based on (PC6400,
etc) by adjusting the BIOS RAM speed in the settings, save that
setting, and then shut off the machine. Install your faster memory
and then reboot - should work with the faster memory.

But it all hinges if you have the processor installed correctly, the
fan is mounted right, everything is connected up on the ATX and 12V
connectors on the motherboard, etc. Just do all that first (check
everything) then do the above checks with slower RAM installed to JUST
get started. That's what Paul told me to do with mine and I got mine
to boot GREAT!

Hang in there and let us know if you have joy getting your mobo
running -

Marty

U have the answer

Next if you have some slower memory DDR2 memory from an older machine
(like PC3200, PC4200, etc) try putting one stick of it in the DIMM1
slot and try booting your machine. You should see a startup screen on
your machine since the slower RAM will be better accepted by the
default BIOS settings that are there now - - you'll eventually have to
set the RAM speed up to the what you new memory is based on (PC6400,
etc) by adjusting the BIOS RAM speed in the settings, save that
setting, and then shut off the machine. Install your faster memory
and then reboot - should work with the faster memory.

Have similar problem, but then used SDRAM in DIMM1 instead of the DDR266 memory in the DDR slots to get the mobo to work.
After jumpering the J2/J3 pins to short the pins and setting the JP1 pins to open, I installed one stick of DDR266 SDRAM (Kingston ValueRAM 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 266 (PC 2100) Desktop Memory Model KVR266X64C25/512). The system would boot up and stay up for about a minute or two and then the screen would freeze with bar patterns on the screen. I could sometime reboot to start again, only to have it freeze again. What SDRAM Freq am I supposed to set in the BIOS? Or am I missing something really fundamental here, like the mobo won't support the 266 SDRAM. Is this a bus speed issue and how do I find out what the bus speed is for the board I have? Or is there a problem with the DDR circuitry on the mobo? I have one other "similar" board as this one that does support the DDR266 sticks. Any help appreciated. Thanks