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Motherboard Installation Trouble
Name: Steven Woods Date: March 12, 2002 at 06:47:48 Pacific
Comment:
Just got my Soyo SY-6BA+IV mobo in for an older system. Hooked everything up, but whenever I boot, keyboard does not function; therefore, I cannot enter the BIOS setup. It lists the processor information and then hangs. The power does cycle through the keyboard, 'cause the lights come on. I have tried several keyboards, and I have try several settings on the mobo with jumpers and such. I have reseated everything, even the DIMM modules. Please help!
Name: BRIAN Date: March 12, 2002 at 08:01:27 Pacific
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Do you get any display?
Do you get any beeps?
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Response Number 2
Name: Steven Woods Date: March 12, 2002 at 08:27:13 Pacific
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I get a single beep and then display. I'm going to try and boot up with the mobo outside the case.
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Response Number 3
Name: Steven Woods Date: March 12, 2002 at 09:09:50 Pacific
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Well I removed the mobo and tested, but got the same exact results...gonna have to talk to the guy who sold it to me I guess. Steven
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Response Number 4
Name: applejacks Date: March 12, 2002 at 09:34:34 Pacific
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a remote possibility, but......... are your sure you didn't plug the keyboard into the mouse port?
green is mouse and purple is keyboard. I have generic keyboard and mouse (both with white connectors), needless to say it took me a while to figure that one out. hehe.
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Response Number 5
Name: mike Date: March 12, 2002 at 09:54:57 Pacific
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agree with the last post, make sure you check that out. if they are not labled/color coded, keyboard is to the "outside" and mouse to the "inside" of the case.
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Response Number 6
Name: BRIAN Date: March 12, 2002 at 09:56:16 Pacific
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Can you boot off floppy?
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Response Number 7
Name: Steven Woods Date: March 12, 2002 at 10:23:00 Pacific
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Good try, but I know for a fact that it's plugged into the right one. Just to check, I plugged it into the other one with the same results. I cannot boot off the floppy 'cause I cannot even get into the BIOS to setup the floppy.
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Response Number 8
Name: mike Date: March 12, 2002 at 12:27:09 Pacific
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PS2 port on the mobo may be bad. try clearing the bios with either jumpoersettings (check the manual) or removing the battery .
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Response Number 9
Name: BRIAN Date: March 12, 2002 at 13:47:41 Pacific
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Resetting the BIOS is a good idea. So is checking out the PSU at this point. Was the CPU working before?
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Response Number 10
Name: Steven Woods Date: March 12, 2002 at 17:52:13 Pacific
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Okay well, draining the CMOS did not work. The CPU is working...just to check, I also tried another CPU with the same results. I am sending the motherboard back to the guy tomorrow that I bought it from, and he's going to send me another one. Whenever I get it, I'm going to test it out first off with it outside the case.
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Response Number 11
Name: BRIAN Date: March 12, 2002 at 19:18:11 Pacific
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Did you try swapping out the PSU?
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Response Number 12
Name: Steven Woods Date: March 13, 2002 at 05:04:55 Pacific
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I didn't try swapping out the power supply unit. Shouldn't it be find since everything is getting power though? The keyboard lights flicker when I turn it on, the harddrive is spinning, fans are spinning, etc... It's an Antec case and power supply, so surely it isn't bad.
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Response Number 13
Name: 666 Date: March 13, 2002 at 06:05:51 Pacific
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A power supply right out of the box doesn't mean its good. It might not be giving enough of 3.3 volts to the motherboard. I had that problem on 2 "out of the box" power supplies and as soon as I put in an Allied 350 Watt, it worked perfectly
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Response Number 14
Name: Steven Woods Date: March 13, 2002 at 06:54:51 Pacific
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I think I may have figured it out. I have a PII 400 100FSB, but whenever the PC boots it reads the info as a PII 266 because I have to get into the BIOS to update the info still. The PII 266 has a 66FSB. The memory that I have is 100mhz, and I'm not certain that it's backwards compatible. If it is not backwards compatible, could this be the problem?
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Response Number 15
Name: BRIAN Date: March 13, 2002 at 08:29:06 Pacific
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