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Dual AMD Problem

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Malice

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Hi guys,

I have now bought a dual amd board (Epox M762A) & am trying to get it to work with no success I have tried several variations to atleast get to the bios & nothing.

I have in the board at the moment, a single xp1600 with the end L5 bridge uncut (I have 2 of these & wes hoping to use them in this set up) & 2x 512 ecc ddr in slots 1 & 2. for coolers I have akasa CCarnival 825's & a pci gfx card (matrox)

Sadly it will not do anything (spins fans only)

I have tried each processor in either socket & both together, with & without memory & I can get nothing!!!

Please help me!
 
I had a MSI K7D Master-L, when I first got it, I thought it was bad, turns out that it was VERY picky on ram. It absolutely hated my KHX PC3500 BH5 but worked wonderfully with sticks of Danelec PC2700 and Crucial PC3200(which was a bad stick that wouldn't even pass memtest86, go figure). If you have some generic ram sitting around, give it a try(single stick first).

Not sure about the Epox board, but the MSI would take non-ecc, but only 2 sticks.


Also, unhook EVERYTHING except psu, power switch, video card, cpu, ram, monitor. That is step one in troubleshooting. Remove all possible factors and start adding things back, one by one.
 
Yep, make sure that you install RAM one at a time. Dual processor motherboards and chipsets are more picky about RAM selection, especially timings. The EPoX product page and the forum members at 2CPU.com forums should be of great help with regards to quirks like this.
 
I posted over at 2CPU before here and am awaiting their reply :) but thanks for the tip

I have tried booting with & without pretty much all parts & nothing :( think it is time to contact epox

Any other suggestions gladly accepted
 
Malice, try switching the CPU to the other socket.
Epox is probably the only MPX motherboard I haven't owned, so I can't really give you specifics, but we can try some general MP/MPX resolutions to this problem....couldn't hurt.
 
I have tried each of the processors on its own in each of the sockets & still the same, I also tried the same with the memory & nothing. Although the guy i bought it from is being helpfull I think it is beginning to look like the board is dead :(
 
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