Abit BP6 system will not POST

[Scott.Prive at storigen.com (Scott Prive)]

Owen,

I have one of these boards.

These boards are very sensitive to voltage fluctuation. Several people suggested the power supply, and you might also consider your incoming power lines. If you do not use a UPS, borrow one for a few days and see if that clears things up.

My house is rather old, and when big appliances kick in I can see the luminance drop in my lights. A good power supply can only do so much, and a UPS vattery backup will be good to smooth out the voltage dips. At first I was blaming my lockups on my 40% overclock (heh... these were the best chips ever), but through no-overclock testing I ruled that out, and it looks like I have old house wiring. The UPS kicks in quite often.

If you upgrade... I just upgraded my BP6 workstation at the Salem NH computer show... got an Asus K7266a motherboard with AMD 1900XP... pretty sweet. Watch out for AMD motherboards that are "266" chipset.. they're buggy.. the "266A" is the better motherboard (and getting cheaper now that the "333" chipset is out).

Scott





-----Original Message-----
From: Owen B. Mehegan [mailto:owen at nerdnetworks.org]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:56 AM
To: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Abit BP6 system will not POST


A few days ago, I woke up and found my computer frozen. I reset it, and the
system would not come back up. The drives would spin, but the system did not
beep and wouldn't POST. Eventually, I took out one CPU, and the box seemed
to boot fine. Awhile later, however, it crashed again, and would not reboot.
After a few more tries, I got it to load and run the memory test, and then
it failed again. Sometimes the system does not even POST. Other times it
stops running/freezes after the memory test, during the OS loading process,
or in the BIOS settings menus - NEVER seen that happen before.

So far, I have pulled one CPU, re-seated the video card, cleared the CMOS,
and swapped/removed RAM from the system, all without success. Up until now,
the system has run fine, and I've made no recent changes to the hardware.
The problem sounds like it could be heat, but even this morning, after the
system had been off overnight, it would not even POST. Pertinent specs:

Abit BP6 motherboard
Dual Celeron 533 processors (not overclocked)
2x 256M Crucial PC 133 memory

Any suggestions as to what could be causing this problem would be much
appreciated. Thanks!

/owen

_______________________________________________
Discuss mailing list
Discuss at blu.org
http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss