motherboard installs.. how hard can it be?

[jza734]

My boss brings in a machine for me to work on.
it's a friend of his, and it's an "expensive" machine. (p4/rambus/p4t asus motherboard)


Anyways, i get to looking at the machine, and it's anchored to the standoff's only on four out of 10 places. The p4 retention mechanism is secured to the motherboard by machine bolts and nuts. With lock washers between the bottom of the motherboard and the nut.

Can anyone venture a guess and tell me why it won't post?

[Budd]

i would venture to guess that its because the P4 retention mechanism is mounted with normal machine nuts and bolts, and not the reverse thread metric nuts and bolts that are required by intel.

[+Daemon+]

hummm its a intel

[Fierce]

[quote]Originally posted by Daemon:
<strong>hummm its a intel </strong><hr></blockquote>

hehehehe.....

[Draggar]

This has nothing to do with the mounting of the mobo, but remove and reseat the AGP video (if it is in there), the CPU and RAM. Unplug and replug in the main power form the PSU to the mobo...


If that doesn't help, remove all devices except the floppy disk drive, one stick of ram, the CPU, and video card.

[jza734]

[quote]Originally posted by Draggar:
<strong>This has nothing to do with the mounting of the mobo, but remove and reseat the AGP video (if it is in there), the CPU and RAM. Unplug and replug in the main power form the PSU to the mobo...


If that doesn't help, remove all devices except the floppy disk drive, one stick of ram, the CPU, and video card.</strong><hr></blockquote>

I already tried this. As soon as I saw what was up, i performed all of the pertinent diagnostics, tricks and etc. Still no post.
The bad thing is I don't have another socket 423 rambus based motherboard to test with

[EvilCabbage]

[quote]Originally posted by jza734:
<strong>

I already tried this. As soon as I saw what was up, i performed all of the pertinent diagnostics, tricks and etc. Still no post.
The bad thing is I don't have another socket 423 rambus based motherboard to test with </strong><hr></blockquote>

Find out who built the damn thing, make it their problem, then stab them in the friggin head for mounting a board in such a stupid manner.

[Gameguru]

[quote]Originally posted by jza734:
<strong>The p4 retention mechanism is secured to the motherboard by machine bolts and nuts. With lock washers between the bottom of the motherboard and the nut.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Reminds me of the days when you would open up a case only to find that Packard Bell(in their infinite wisdom) has hot glued the lever down on their socket 5 and socket 7 MBs. What were they thinkin'?

Anyway, on with your problem...

I would recommend you do this:
[quote]Originally posted by Draggar:
<strong>This has nothing to do with the mounting of the mobo, but remove and reseat the AGP video (if it is in there), the CPU and RAM. Unplug and replug in the main power form the PSU to the mobo...


If that doesn't help, remove all devices except the floppy disk drive, one stick of ram, the CPU, and video card.</strong><hr></blockquote>
and if that fails, you might try to get the ram checked. If one of those rimms are bad, it will cause it not to boot.

JM2¢

[silencio]

The machine will post if you carefully place it back under his desk and make sure that one of the black screws holding the desk together touches the back of the power supply in a way that will insure a proper ground.

If that doesn't work you may have to pry the top left corner of the motherboard up about an inch and a half and put a 10 or 12 matchboxes under it.

I've seen it work man!!

[Gollo]

Hey mods can we move this to tech-to-tech

[Kermit D. Frog]

Check the memory installation, there are two sets of RIMM sockets. With RIMM, they say the best way to install it is to put one stick in the first slot of each set, then put the dummy stick in the second slot of each set. It may not post unless the memory is configured like this.