If you could offer any advice with my problem I would be most appreciative. My problem is that the board will not post. All fans and LEDs turn on but there is no video. If I remove the video card, it beeps but it isn't very useful without video. The card I have is an ago ATi rage pro 128 (not agp pro). Since it didn't work I swapped it with a pci voodoo 3 3000 but that didn't work either. Both cards work in another computer. I tried a different psu from a working computer, no change. I swapped ram (pc133 unbuffered) no change. All the time, there were no pci cards or ide devices plugged in. Just for the record, I am well experienced with building computers, I have built several that operate quite well, and I believe I have done everything I could short of buying new cpu's. I have 2x p3 733, I tried booting with only one processor, I swapped the two to see if one was bad. (in the 1st cpu's socket). If both cpu's are bad I would never know, but I think that is unlikely first because I don’t believe both cpu's would fail and second because they never got above 100 degrees F in my previous board. I bought this board to replace my previous board which I thought died. It was exhibiting similar behavior to this board but I can't figure out which component is faulty. board url: http://www.aopen.com/products/server/dx34plus.htm even though it has the 24 pin atx connector, you can use a standard 20 pin psu if you don't have an agp pro card, also the aux/agp connecter is only used with agp pro. any ideas on how to tell if the cpu(s) are dead short of having another mobo and cpu? thanks -Tim Tean Seti Usa www.seti-usa.com

Hey tim, nice to see you. I've seen you on the seti@home message boards a few time. Have you tried clearing the CMOS if the FSB is adjustable through the BIOS or setting the FSB jumper to 100 MHz if your board uses one? I doubt it will make a differnce but its worth a try? Apart from that you've done the other things I would have suggested, although the motherboard could just as likely have stopped working as it seems a bit of a coinsidence that two working CPU's would stop at the same time. Do you have another socket 370 CPU that you could try in the board?

the only other baord i have is my first dual socket 370 board which i thought was dead and was the reason i bought the one i am now having problems with except the problem is the exact same as with the old board. i don't believe i have any way of testing the cpus

Could a dodgy PSU be killing off the boards perhaps?