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Slot A not booting

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First post, by maverick85

Posted on 2017-04-30, 15:47

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I've bought a Slot Am motherboard and CPU bundle. I've tried using my single sided PC133 memory on it. Nothing shows on the screen. Done the usual reset bios by taking batter out etc. frustrating. Wanted to check out IDE to SD and my vortex 2 😒

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Reply 1 of 5, by Ampera

Posted on 2017-04-30, 16:24

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What board is it?

Have you tried other memory?

Do you know the CPU works?

What GPU are you using?

Did you try other slots?

Is the PSU good?

Are the caps working?

We need more info here.

Reply 2 of 5, by Tetrium

Posted on 2017-04-30, 17:51

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Ampera wrote:
What board is it? […]
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What board is it?

Have you tried other memory?

Do you know the CPU works?

What GPU are you using?

Did you try other slots?

Is the PSU good?

Are the caps working?

We need more info here.

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Reply 3 of 5, by maverick85

Posted on 2017-04-30, 20:26

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The board is a gigabyte ga-71xe and the processor is an athlon 800mhz slot a. I've connected a ti4200 which spins up no display. Then ati rage ultra no display. One sick of ram. Different dimm slots nothing. I have a suspicion is to do with the single sided high density memory I have that the system doesn't like

ASRock 98
Win98SE Desktop
ASRock
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.0GHz
1 x 512MB 667 MHz DDR2
Soundblaster SB0100 + Altec Lansing ADA885
ATi Radeon X800XT 256MB GDDR3
1 x SATA 120GB HDD
1 x SATA DVD-RW

Reply 4 of 5, by Ampera

Posted on 2017-05-01, 06:16

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Then try other memory.

Reply 5 of 5, by petro89

Posted on 2017-05-02, 04:52

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Might need a newer BIOS. 800Mhz is one of the later Slot-A cores and although the board probably supports it, it may need a newer BIOS to do so. I don't suppose you have an older Slot-A cpu to try it with like a 500-600?

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