alansupra94

Well I just bought this computer with a Biostar M7NCG motherboard and a 1.5 Duron processor

It is not running at all and not recognizing IDE drives or hard drives.

At first it didn't run at all, no video, no beeping....then I removed one memory stick and reinstalled it and WHAM I have video.....then it won't recognize IDE dvd rom drive, CD-RW or HDD

It looks like it is cutting power to the drives so how because right when the computer is booting up (before the biostart screen) the drive pop out and in but after, they don't move at all and i tested the power cables with a voltage meter and they check out

Is there some bio setting that I need to set for the front side bus? Does the memory speed need to match the processor?

I will post details about the memory stick as soon as I get back from work.....and information about the processor

Thanks
Alan

alansupra94

Well according to my memory sticks, they are all PC3200.....but this motherboard only supports up to PC2700....

Is PC3200 suppose to be downward compatible? I have two 512MB Kingston chips and one (Advanced Modules)??? 1GB stick....i might just try it with the 2 512MB kingstons

hackapelite

Yes DDR memory is down/backward compatible. You may actually have two problems, bad stick(s) AND a weak PSU. How many HDs does it have? If it's got several, plug the extra ones out, and you may also want to plug all optical drives out (i.e. only start the comp with the HDD with OS on it.) If that does the trick, you've probably got a weak/faulty PSU (or problems with the HDs). If not, there might be something wrong with the mobo, as it's quite unlikely that memory problems interfere with HDDs or the other way around, unless you have a problem with both.

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alansupra94

well the power supply is a very strong 550W thermaltake

it only had one HDD and 2 optical drives connected

however, I don't have any windows operating system install at this point

StrangleHold

Do you have the master and slave jumpers set right on the drives? Are you sure the IDE cables are good? Try reseting the bios.

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OvenMaster

There should be BIOS settings for hard drive interface selection. My Biostar board enables me to select SATA or IDE or both. Look in "Integrated Peripherals" in your BIOS setup menu.

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Frankenbox III:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ *** MOBO: Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 *** RAM: 2x1GB Kingston DDR2 667
HDD: WD 80GB Master, Seagate 320GB Slave *** OPT: two Pioneer DVR-115DBK DVD burners
PSU: Antec Basiq 500W *** GPU: PNY GeForce FX5200 256MB AGP 8x *** MON: ViewSonic LCD VA721
CASE: EvTek minitower *** SND: Diamond Xtreme 5.1 *** OS: XP Home SP2 *** ROUTER: Linksys BEFSR41

alansupra94

I don't think this would have it because it has no SATA ports on it

OvenMaster

: bashes head against wall:
I didn't see in the original post that there were no SATA ports.

Methinks I'm slipping and need to take a break from CF.

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Frankenbox III:
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ *** MOBO: Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 *** RAM: 2x1GB Kingston DDR2 667
HDD: WD 80GB Master, Seagate 320GB Slave *** OPT: two Pioneer DVR-115DBK DVD burners
PSU: Antec Basiq 500W *** GPU: PNY GeForce FX5200 256MB AGP 8x *** MON: ViewSonic LCD VA721
CASE: EvTek minitower *** SND: Diamond Xtreme 5.1 *** OS: XP Home SP2 *** ROUTER: Linksys BEFSR41