Help with ASUS A7V333 Motherboard

[rgrech35]

Hi, I'm new to the board so hi to everyone, and any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

I'm building a system with the following hardware:

ASUS A7V333 mb (no raid)
512 MB samsung pc2700 (1 DIMM)
Athlon XP 1900+ CPU
WD 120 MB HD w/ 8MB Cache
SB Audigy (OEM)
Visiontek Xtasy GeForce4 Ti 4600 Video Card
Plextor 40x burner, sony 52x cd-rom, netgear NiC

I put the system together (this is not the first sytem I have built), went to the asus website and downloaded manual revision 2.0, and set all the jumpers to match how they are displayed in this manual rev.

Unfortunately, the machine won't post. I removed all cards except video, adn still no post. Tried different RAM and a Different processor, still won't post. Replaced ram and processor with the 512MB and 1900+, removed AGP video card and replaced it with an old PCI matrox card.

The machine posted fine. I selected the processor speed, etc, went to the BIOS to change the default video to AGP. Shut down, removed PCI video card and replaced with AGP.

Machine won't post again. Removed AGP video card and replaced with PCI card. Machine won't post either now with PCI video card. I have also tried other AGP cards to no avail.

Anyone have any idea what the heck is causing this? This is the first time EVER I have had a problem with an Asus board.

Thanks everyone.

 

[mistanapesis]

I have suspicion its your AGP card or the BIOS, Can you get the machine to POST again using the PCI card after clearing the BIOS? I would go one stage at a time. get it to post as you had it before (with PCI video). gradually changing hardware and BIOS configurations as you go, Till it fails to post (process of elimination) Might be time consuming, but at least you`l be able to tell where it fails. Let us know how you get on in any case. If your unsure....Dont do it!

 

[paparazi]

This motherboard should be completely soft configurable.
I sujest you unset all those jumpers?? to soft config and let the board set itself. Martin Just trying to help, sometimes falling short, I am only human after all.

 

[Guest_imported]

using the a7v333 asus m/board:

athlon 1700xp
128mb ddr
asus geforce4 ddr 64mb Graphics
dvdrom + cdrw

System built and installed Win 9x no problems. Only needed to download firmware for my burner. Until, on one boot up occassion the 'speech reporter' blurted: "no CPU installed...". this i overcame by setting the jumper for the afore mentioned warning device to disable and manually setting cpu internal frequency. Since then I heard no more camp S Hawking impressions. However, curiosity still leaves me wondering why...

Any thoughts?

 

[opti]

I have the same problem. System won't post. Just a blank screen.

This has happened twice.

I have tried multiple video cards as well. Still no go. Have a friend and this happened twice as well. This board should be: put it in, plug your cards in and away you go. ( more or less )

Asus a7v333 ( without Raid )
gf2 400 mx
3com nics x 2
80GB HD x 2
52x cdrom ( asus )

 

[Guest_imported]

I've been able to get the Asus AV7333 motherboard to work just fine with the Asus V8200 Pure card up until the point where Win2K tries to switch video mode away from VGA. Then it locks up with a blocky scrambled pattern that is very similar to the last screen before the change.

I tried updating every driver imaginable from the latest VIA 4-in-1, the V8200 driver, the AGP driver, even installed Win2K SP2, but there is no difference. I can run Win2K in VGA mode just fine, just forget about more than 16-colors, 480x320.

I also have trouble with the card with XFree86 on FreeBSD, but I've got some more fiddling to do before I lay that at the card's feet.

Anyone else having this kind of problem?

 

[Mundane]

I am having the exact same problem. Nothing I do matters, it won't post.

Asus a7v333(w/o RAID)
Athlon XP 2000+
512 MB (PC2700)
GF3
linksys nic
SB Value Live

I have swapped CPU's, RAM, and removed every card. Cards I just pulled out of my old box (which work fine).

Fans in the box turn on, CD-ROM spins up and thats it. Nothing else happens.

Kinda upset with this. Blew all day yesterday on this.

 

[Stretchy]

I had the same problem

Asus A7V333 (RAID)
Athlon XP 2100
512 MB (PC700)
GF3
3Com Nic
Sb Audigy

Just afyter I finished building it i switched it on and to my horror it turned itself off again after about 10 seconds. The longest uptime it managed was about 1 minute where it got to the OS and promptly switched off.

I found that i was doing several things wrong. Firstly I needed to disable on board sound (woman talking was annoying me anyway) as the Audigy was a bit tempermental about this. Second I needed to reseat my heatsink on the processor (and add thermal paste). I found that (after watching the temperature click up in BIOS) it was overheating very quicky. The ASUS board has a thermal cut out limit and this is what was happening. I applied the Arctic Silver II and have had no probs since.

This is only a wild stab in the dark but I know from experience that Athlon XP's do tend to heat up very quickly. If your computer is just not booting then check that hard disks are properly connected to IDE. Also what power supply do you use?

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Stretchy [Pipe]

 

[Stretchy]

I had the same problem

Asus A7V333 (RAID)
Athlon XP 2100+
512 MB (PC700)
GF3
3Com Nic
Sb Audigy

Just afyter I finished building it i switched it on and to my horror it turned itself off again after about 10 seconds. The longest uptime it managed was about 1 minute where it got to the OS and promptly switched off.

I found that i was doing several things wrong. Firstly I needed to disable on board sound (woman talking was annoying me anyway) as the Audigy was a bit tempermental about this. Second I needed to reseat my heatsink on the processor (and add thermal paste). I found that (after watching the temperature click up in BIOS) it was overheating very quicky. The ASUS board has a thermal cut out limit and this is what was happening. I applied the Arctic Silver II and have had no probs since.

This is only a wild stab in the dark but I know from experience that Athlon XP's do tend to heat up very quickly. If your computer is just not booting then check that hard disks are properly connected to IDE. Also what power supply do you use?

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Stretchy [Pipe]

 

[Guest_imported]

Asus A7V333 (RAID)
Athlon XP 1800+
512 MB (PC2100)
Realtek Nic
This is piece of junk made by asus i spend my whole two days to put to gether this system all i have prob i update bios no screen i follow all the steps i suppose to help me

 

[markyo]

Asus A7V333
Athlon XP 2200+
512MB (PC2700)
GeForce4 440 MX
Windows XP SP1

I've installed the support of the usb2.0 from the web site of asus, but now my printer (HP Deskjet 5550) connected to the usb2.0 port doesn't work. If I connect the printer on the usb1.1 port it works correctly, but not at the full speed.
Another problem is with the ram how I can use my DDR ram at 333MHz of bandwidth, I think it's necessary to use the FSB at 166MHz, isn't it? But the low value of the multiplier forn the cpu clock is 13x, so if I use this FSB my cpu clock is 13x166=2158MHz instead of 1800MHz standard form my processor. Is there a way to use the DDR ram at the full speed?

Thank you in advance for your answers!

 

[wexler]

Hi
I have an Asus A7V8X board........actually 2 new boards and a new AMD chip......samsung DDR 333 ram and all the video and goodie cards.....am not new to assembly at all, but can not get either board to post........have tried changing the AGP to PCI and all the little tricks but still no post or screen. Since this is the first (and possibly last) AMD product I have ever done is there some bizzare trick I'm not aware of when booting this system?

 

[biohazzard72]

Asus has only tested the A7v333 with (And only recomends using...) either Nanya, Transend, or Micron PC 2700 sticks of RAM. The update sheet that came with the board has this information on it along with some other goodies. Could this be where you're having your problems????

 

[tempo21]

yes im afraid that you hit the nail on the head.

ASUS only tests its boards with top brand memory. This means you sholud only use top of the range modules. T3/\/\p()
tek-tips UK branch!
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