Arrrgh Chaintech CT-7NJL6!

Yousaif · May 12, 2005, 11:06 PM

My mom bought a bare bones kit from Tiger and asked if I would assemble it for her. "No problem," said I. Well now I have a problem...

Here are the specs:

Ultra Case and 300W PSU
Chaintech CT-7NJL6 Mobo (NForce2 400 chipset)
AMD Sempron 2800+
256MB Ultra PC2100 (came with the kit, freaking Tiger)
Chaintech GeForce MX-4000 (no onboard video)
Asus 52x CD-ROM
Maxtor 30GB HD

I can get it to POST with one beep and enter the CMOS setup screen after clearing the CMOS with the jumper. After I set the date, time, and the boot order, I throw in my WIN 2K CD and save the CMOS and reboot.

The thing is, there are no beeps, the monitor gets signal from the video card (the LED changes color and I can see a change in the brightness of the screen) but it just hangs there. If I let it sit for about 10 minutes, it will suddenly beep once and I can see the POST screen, then it goes back to its blank screen again.

I have tried the fail-safe defaults and get the same results. I have tried setting the FSB jumper to both the 100MHZ and the 133, 166 settings still to no avail.

Anyone have any sugeestions I can try before I freak out on Tiger?

-Yousaif

Vampyromaniac · May 13, 2005, 12:57 AM

It may be the RAM, try switching to different slots, swap and test with different RAM if possible.
Try removing as many components as possible, and test. Meaning, just have CPU, RAM and hard drive connected and see if it goes better. Or just CPU and RAM. That will help eliminate candidates for the cause of the problem. If you get better results, add components one by one, testing each time.
But definitely freak out on Tiger regardless.

Yousaif · May 15, 2005, 10:56 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. I finally got it to POST after the CMOS setup. To do this I had to turn off the power switch on the PSU, wait 10 seconds or so, and turn it back on again. I was able to get Windows installed, all drivers, chipset drivers, etc., and the machine is working now.

I'm still having the issue that it won't POST or boot unless I turn off the power supply and wait 10 seconds again. Has anyone else run into this issue before? Im thinking that I need to swap the PSU, but it doesn't make a lot of sense that this is happening.

Incidentally, when the machine is powered off, the blue LED on the optical mouse still has power and glows. Does this point to a motherboard issue?

Thanks again,
-Saif