[alfred01]

the following is the first post i made about a week ago. under the ==== line there is the second post after i returned the PSU and mainboard to the shop and got new ones.

hello,

the title may tell my problem but i'll say it again:
i freshly build a new pc with the following hardware:
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q9550 95w
motherboard: MSI P7N Diamond v1.0
vid card: 2x XFX GTX260 black
ram: Kingston HyperX (KHX8500D2T1K2/4G) each bar is 2 GB with two bars in total
PSU: Corsair TX850w
HDD: Seagate Baracuda 1.5TB (SATA)
case: Antec Nine Hundred two
cpu cooler: Thermaltake MaxOrb
optical drive: a SATA burner

the problem is the following: we installed everything like it should, then we press the on button and wait. then the splash screen comes on with the choices: press tab for POST or press del for BIOS.
we need to change the boot order so we press del. but then nothing happens.


things we hear when we do the above:
one short beep and shortly after that a softer beep-boopbeep.

things we tried in chronological order:
clearing the CMOS (we did this everytime we changed something)
removing the sli bridges
removing the power cables for the second vid card
removing the second vid card
removing one of the two RAM's
removing both RAM's (we got the beep error that there is no RAM, 3 long ones i thought)
removing the audio card that comes with the motherboard
getting a RAM bar from a friend that is on the supported list for the motherboard which did nothing diffrent
removing all other power cables from the fans, hdd, optical drive. (this got rid of the beep-boopbeep)
removing all the vid cards and placing an older 8600gt in.
when we pressed the on button we rapidly pressed delete for about 5 seconds which got us to POST, which said

when we had one Kingston HyperX installed it said:

A7510NMS V1.0 011508

Genuine Intel (R) , Speed: 333x8.5=2831 MHz

DRAM Frequency For DDR2 800 (Single Channel)
Initializing USB Controllers .. Done.
2048MB OK



it says DDR2 800 but the RAM is 1066 and the motherboard should support 1066.

we tried using the del button with one USB keyboard and two PS/2 keyboards
we also tried the above and then wait for 5 minutes to see if the BIOS would show, but it didn't.
we also connected the PSU from my other PC to the motherboard but it still gave the same problem.


pls pls pls help me. thanks in advance for any answers.

calamus

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This is about a new build that has not got an OS. The following happened during a benchtest.

When i power on my system and get to the motherboard splash screen. it just stays there.

When i power on my system and press delete when i get the splash screen i go to POST. After that it stays there and does nothing.

The first time i powered on the system i pressed delete at the splash screen and then it went to POST but it did say

Genuine Intel (R) , Speed: 333x8.5=2831 MHz

DRAM Frequency For DDR2 800 (Single Channel)
Initializing USB Controllers .. Done.
Entering Setup...
2048MB OK

It didn't go any further than that. also at the bottom of the screen it also said "press TAB for POST and DEL for Setup".

Since it froze at that point we tried to clear the CMOS, we powered off the system, got rid of residual power and then pressed the clear CMOS button on the back of the mainboard.
When we had done that we powered up the system again and pressed delete when the splash screen appeared, it went to POST but now it only said:

Genuine Intel (R) , Speed: 333x8.5=2831 MHz

DRAM Frequency For DDR2 800 (Single Channel)
Initializing USB Controllers .. Done.
2048MB OK

It doesn't say Entering Setup... anymore and also the message at the bottom of the screen saying "press TAB for POST or DEL to enter Setup" is gone.

It is still the same after disconnecting or reconnecting the HDD and optical drive.

What is going on here? This is exactly what happened the first time except then it didn't say Entering Setup... or the message at the bottom of the page. After that i returned the mainboard to the store and they found a defect. After that they send another mainboard which now does as discribed above.