Abit KT7 power issues

In a PC I am fixing for a friend, I have a problem where I turn on the power it begins to boot for 5-10 seconds, emits a series of beeps in no discernable pattern, but also not continuous, then powers itself off.

Brand new 300watt PSU
AMD Duron 750
512Mb SDRAM PC-133
ATI Rage Fury Pro 32MB
56K
10/100
ATI Video Capture Board and tuner

Took system down to CPU, RAM and still had the problem. Tried Ram and CPU in different machine and they worked fine, tried the CPU and RAM from my personal machine in the ABIT board, same issue.

Am I looking at a bad board or am I missing something somewhere?

Any help or insights would be greatly appreciated.

Try resetting the bios via the jumper on the motherboard to defaults.

Also these beeps - could they possibly be from the hardware monitor rather than the bios beeps?

Have you put a standard video card in?

This might be a clue too

In the above link, if this is the case, then I would refer you to ruslan's bios recovery tools.

Here

But it sounds like a CPU issue, had a simular problem with a Matsonic board. 3-4beeps and machine powered down.

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Originally posted by NooNoo
....Also these beeps - could they possibly be from the hardware monitor rather than the bios beeps?

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If the machine won't post, i.e it cant get past the PCI info screen then its bios, if the beeps persist past that then h/w monitor, that shouldn't try to start until after post.... or that's my understanding at least....

This machine won't do anything. The screen shows a flash of yellow exactly twice, right as you turn it on, and then right as it powers down. No POST no nothing. I've tried a 8MB PCI video Card, thinking maybe the AGP was screwing things up somehow.

I'll try restteing the BIOS. If anyone has any other ideas, I'd be happy to give 'em a try.

P.S.
NooNoo, I lost that other URL. Would you mind sending to me again. Thanx. :)

OK, after resetting the BIOS, I got the machine to start. I set all the menu items and,... it refused to post again. After going through the routine a few times, I got it to boot from a CD ROM. I put the WinXp CD in and now its taking forever to check the disks and load the windows setuo routine.

If I set the date and time in the BIOS it refuses to POST again until I re-clear the BIOS.

The setup routine on the windows CD is taking, at present, 10 minutes to load.

Anyone else have any other ideas.

Try disabling either level 1 or 2 cache - see what happens then ;)

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Originally posted by CoreLogiK
Anyone else have any other ideas.

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There is one... :) I have repaired recently the same motherboard with similar problems...
Abit boards are "famous" for having bad capacitors (especially after one-two years of using)... So, make sure there are no bad capacitors on this board (with swollen tops, 1000Mkf or 2200Mkf, around socket A connector). If found any - replace them, and the problem will be solved. I did it many times, and every time succsessfully...

I had the same problem with a pentium III board. Ended up replacing the board is working fine now. Checked all the components on the board, flashed bios, but couldn't get it to take after resetting time and date.