no post beeps

[Guest_imported]

I recently bought a amd athlon xp 2100+ barebones motherboard with a sis730 chipset from "PCCHIPS" I have a amd xp 1700+ cpu,512 pc133mhz mem modules, and 80 gig HHD.To make a long story short I get no post beeps whatsoever when I put it all together.I took the mem out and then tried so I should have at least gotten a no memory post error.Right? I also tried without the cpu installed.I took everything out and installed agian. ACK! nothing.Anyone out there ever had to deal with this?
Thanks
STumped

 

[GrandpaCarl]

HI RAVEN1,

Though I am busy as a beaver this morning, I could not resist giving a quick search on google.com for "checking nvram." It came back with only 2600 references! Two right near the top seemed especially appropriate as the referred to your exact motherboard!

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/1717/

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/1574/

It usually pays to use a good search engine to see if you are not alone in your trials. Google is about the best I have found.

Hope this helps, but my previous comments regarding matching memory RAM speed to motherboard is still worth checking.

Good luck.


GrandpCarl

 

[GrandpaCarl]

HI RAVEN1,

Back again. Read:

http://pub65.ezboard.com/fk7s5amotherboardforumfrm10.showMessage?topicID=180.topic

Seems heat is a common problem with your motherboard. Perhaps this will help.

Grandpa

 

[acik]

Just to cover some more basics, have you replace your CMOS battery or checked if BIOS has POST enabled.

 

[raven1]

I put in a differant video card and it booted right up! so I guess it didnt like my vid card.So I have gone past "checking nvram" and installed w2kpro nad everything is running smooth.As for that 256 of ram I tried to put in I remeber now that I was going to use it to upgrade my mothers pc.But when I had everything in it said...no signal check cabling on the monitor.When I put her mem stick back in it booted right up.So at the time I asssumed her pc wasn't compatible with pc133mhz.It never occured to me that the chip was bad seems how I never even took it out of the package till that day.And then trying to use in my PCchips MB.Same kind of error.Except no post and no video.I guess I will see if I can get my money or exchange.Its a simpletech from costco so I don't know if that mattters or not.
I want to thank everyone that helped me!