Re: error codes

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

To expand on this a little, try booting with just one DIMM in
place if you have more than one.  Also, do the standard debugging
thing where you take *everything* off of the board and put stuff
back one at a time, starting with CPU, one DIMM, then the video
card.

Regarding the thermal grease, I personally reccomend picking up
a tube of "arctic silver" and using an Alpha "Pal 6035" heatsink,
as I've had far and away the best results with those.  If you
fire up the system with no heatsink for just a second or two,
you'll smell a couple hundred dollars of smoke and have a neat
AMD thing to stick on your monitor.  A heatsink with no thermal
compound combined with a processor creating as much heat as a
1.2GHz Athalon does will likely have a similar result after a
slightly longer time.

--Danny, who has a 1 GHz athalon that did 1.3GHz for a real short
	time stuck on his monitor at work :(

On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 01:57:44AM -0000, Benjamin Story wrote:
> Travis,
> 
> First as far as your posting problem, it sounds like you might not have the 
> CPU jumpers set right.  Double check the bus speed and voltages.  Another 
> thing that you can check is the RAM.  Sometimes the RAM won't seat all the 
> way and you'll need to reinsert it.
> 
> In reference to the thermal grease, yes you should have either thermal grease 
> or thermal tape between the processor and the heat sink so that the heat 
> properly dissapates from the CPU.
> 
> Good Luck
> Travis Davies <tddavies@yahoo.com> said:
> 
> > I got a new Motherboard. Its a asus A7M266ddr sdram
> > socket A. When I try to boot it up the three lights on
> > my keyboard turn on and I get no screen output. No
> > beeps either. Once it booted up and the bios was said
> > it was running at 900mhz. so when I configured it for
> > 1200 it booted up again in some sort of bios safemode.
> > any ideas?
> > Amd athalon thunderbird 1200 2 levels of chache
> > 
> > Also, I was wondering, for AMD chips, is it absolutly
> > necessary to put the thermal paste on?
> > 
> > Has anyone had a problem like this?
> > 
> > Travis
> > 
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