This new Fry's combo with 512 MB DDR 3200 Corsair RAM, ATI 7500 PCI Video Card, Western digital 120 Gb IDE 8MB Buffer HD just beeps withou POST eavery 8 seconds or so. All the components except MoBo and CPU work on another PC just fine. JP1 has a jumper on pins 1-2; JP2 & JP3 have a jumper on pins 2-3 respectivly (itried other setting for JP2 & JP3 same result). After clearing the bios (JP1 pins 2-3 jumper), same failed result. I do not have a floppy but it should still produce some video output with some sort of error, right?
Any help is appreciated

Your BIOS needs to be the latest version 8.0C dated 2003/10/3, it can be dowloaded here. http://www.ecs.com.tw/download/dw_spec.asp?product_id=352 , try an older model processor, to get it to POST so you can check the Ver. #

I have the same motherboard and processor combo from Fry's. Of course, I get the same beep error. Did you figure out anything yet?

I have the same system board. One I have xp2000 cpu and other one a duron 1.8 cpu. biggest problem I have seen with both is that they choked on pc2700 stick of memory I had. clearing bios and forcing it to a pc2100 memory cleared that problem. the beeping from the hard drive sounds like cable errors..

in all cases, unplug everything except the memory, video, keyboard.. make danged sure the cpu fan is in place and has been connected.

These system boards are dandies. hard to think that 3 of you got bad boards but who knows...

anyone get a fix yet ??????

H Ray

Yeah, I have a stick of PC2700 and AFTER I bought it I read an addendum that said it didn't like PC2700. It won't even start though. So I figure, maybe that's the problem. So I put in a PC3200 stick from another computer. And I get the same error beep; it's a medium length beep, that repeats itself every 8 seconds or so until you shut off the power. Tried with only essentials plugged in. No luck. Cleared the CMOS, still errs. Tried with an older processor (AMD Duron 750) still no luck actually getting it to boot. I checked to make sure all cards were seated correctly, fan/heatsink is secure and plugged in. It's got to be the board's problem. I checked the RAM in another computer, and it worked.

P.S. I don't believe that he was talking about beeping from the hard drive. I think that was the end of his description of his computer. To my knowledge, hard drives don't beep

yep, BTW, I had a k7s5a-pro that did exactly this kind of stuff. it died during boot and gave me the impression that the bio's got scrambeled. This k7vta3-ver8 has an option to disable flashing the bios.. I suggest that you set it disabled when/if you get it all working..

Ray

I bought the same thing and got nothing on the screen with jumpers JP2 and JP3 both set to 2-3 and the slowest memory timings, but I was using PC2100 memory, and it was Kingston ValueRam, which is some of the worst for overclocking. OTOH the system worked fine with JP3 set to 1-2 for 133 MHz bus speed, even with this memory set to the second fastest BIOS settings.

BTW, in the three different DDR mobos I've tried, all ECS (K7VTA3 v. 8, K7S5A Pro v. 5, P4S5A2 v. 1), about half of the Kingston PC2100 ValueRAM modules gave at least one error with MemTest86 or Gold Memory, unless I slowed the bus to 100 MHz or set at least one BIOS timing parameter below its default. I also had problems with K-byte modules with Spectec chips but not those with Nanya/Elixir chips.

same problem tho I have a stick of the RED memory that fry's use to carry (guess it came out too bad too much) that stuff fails... its supposed to be 166 memory but only works at 133 (pc2100). I stuck some corsair value ram pc3200 on that k7vta3 v8 system board and it flew like a banshee at 200 (tho I know that memory bus is only for pc2700) auto detect fine worked fine...
system just will not boot at all if that memory is set wrong and had to jumper the cmos every time I screwed up and let it find its own..
I have yet to try the pc3200 memory in the system with the xp2000 cpu. tomorrow for sure...

Ray

I have one question, is your Heatsink/Fan connection the small 3 pin or 4 pin? If it is a 4 pin or 3 pin without the fan speed signal, the motherboard will think it is a fan failure, make a bunch of beeps, then shutdown. It must have a 3 pin fan that is around 4k RPM or higher to boot. There is a key sequence to boot up without the proper fan signal cable, but I can't remember off of the top of my head what it is.

That may be your solution. Trick it by hooking up an 80mm case fan to the CPU fan connection on the mobo. Then in the BIOS turn off the failure option where it show you about the CPU setup.

Well, I don't think that's a problem... but it could be related. The heatsink/fan that I have, I used for the previous chip and motherboard (Duron 750, same socket, so it shouldn't matter, right?)
But it did get me thinking... and I could be wrong. I just unplugged the fan completely and got the same error beep. I plugged the CPU fan into another fan port and plugged in an 80 MM case fan as you suggested (tried with CPU fan as well) but to no avail... still beeps at me.

sounds like youre going to have to get the proper fan... one that was designed for the older cpu might not be good enough to do the job. Does that frys have a tech??? have you called them about this.. you are running really close to the end of the 15 day warrantee from them (for DOA).

Herm

I'm not particularly worried. If you haven't been to Fry's they have a really loose return policy. They take things back and repackage them all the time. They mark them as such, but sometimes you can find a product that their entire stock of them are repacks. It's not the most wonderful thing in the world, but it works for them, I suppose. Anyway, this is the one time it'll work for me. So I got all the time in the world. Besides, if I don't eventually get this computer working, I'm just going to make it into a end table But it is more valueable to me working ;-) Maybe it heard my threat and will decide to work!

here is houston,tx frys make you follow a new policy to the letter. They have even decided to stop honoring correctly the bought waranty extensions and swap out policies one buys from them. I had a system board to fail and they say that once they swap it out you done used your (1) swapout for what you bought... I guess that people here are not use to their swap policy in the rest of the world or the store manager has gone on his/her own to make corporate policy.
NOW they screw you big time here... each purchase I make I have to decide if I can just loose the money or not..Danged them, they make policy on the spot and its different each time you go there with a problem... not like it was when the store first opened it was just like you described the west coast stores.. oh well>>
Got road runner cable and have a bitch of a time with news groups too. Other parts of the country have experienced same problems and eventually r/r fixes them but deny any problems even tho its obvious to an idiot they have problems..

soap box burned and stepping down
Herm