My apologies, I missed the recording you attached to your original post... I think it was removed by one of my browser extensions. I listened to your recording... since your Biostar M7VIW has an AWARD BIOS ... the closest description in the table might be "Repeated beeps alternating high & low …

This right here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/274250433073 I didn't want to put it on there unless it passed the POST (the Adaptec fan was simply used to indicate some things before I ordered that POST card), mainly because I didn't want to waste thermal paste only to get the same issues I already …

Okay, you've tried different two sticks of RAM, so it's probably not the memory. If you plug the CPU fan into the motherboard, does the CPU fan spin up? Do you have your motherboard connected to a PC Speaker? Sometimes if you get beeps during POST errors, you can deduce what the problem is... The …

An early BIOS for that board could conceivably not like anything faster than a palomino 1800 AFAICR 2100s were fresh out when KT333 was fresh out. If it's a TbredA or B then probably needs new BIOS even if a late board. Via boards I had never seemed that picky about it though, they'd just display …

I don't have any other GPU (AGP or PCI) at the moment (though I may also consider getting a PCI video card one day, just in case). Same goes for the CPU (I'll probably look further in the mobo's documentation later just in either case). The caps on the other hand, they seem to be okay, haven't …

kolderman wrote on 2021-06-21, 06:31: Does it display anything on the screen at all? Nope, not even once (no outputs whatsoever).

The hardware specs are as follows: Motherboard: Biostar M7VIW (Socket 462) CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (1.73 GHz) RAM: Kingston (512 MB, DDR 266, PC2100) GPU: ATI Rage128 Pro (16 MB VRAM) PSU: Maxpower PX-300W [/b] Upon putting together only the critical components listed above, it wouldn't even pass …