At the risk of suggesting the obvious, I'd take a break from this, come back in a bit and triple-check for the possibility that something is plugged in backwards / wrong.
This is the most likely scenario if the mobo and all components are working correctly and yet are producing the behavior you describe. $.02, Dylan On 5/3/05, Tyler Nugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Though beep codes are mentioned in the manual, all three tyan techs I've > talked to have all insisted that there are no beep codes programmed for this > particular board (sounds like bs, I know). The onboard speaker doesn't beep > and I've connected a case speaker with no results. > > Keyboard and video do nothing. Keyboard lights blink when power cable is > plugged in, but after that - nothing. No keyboard lock lights and the > monitor doesn't click on. > > Hey btw, thanks for your response. > > > > > On 5/3/05, Mark A. Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > According to page 59 of the manual, it is supposed to have beeps. If it's > spinning up I would plug in the video and keyboard and see what comes out... > > > > markh > > > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tyler Nugent > > Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 3:35 PM > > To: [email protected] > > > > Subject: Re: [PDXLUG] Server nightmare > > > > > > > > Sooooooooo, I noticed today in my power supply manual that if the board is > drawing too LITTLE power then the power supply will cut and lock. I plugged > in a drive and everything spun up, but still no post.... > > This is progress though - at least I have power on the board which will > allow me to use a post diag card to see how far along the mb is getting > through startup before failure. Anyone have a pci post diag card they'd be > interested in renting out for a night? Unfortunately this board is built > with no startup beeps. > > > > > > > > > > On 5/3/05, Mark A. Holm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > You will also get this kind of behavior if cabling or components are not > connected correctly. I am assuming you are doing your initial testing > without disks from your original descriptions, as a reversed floppy cable > can cause that kind of behavior. The other thing to check is that you have > the memories in the correct slots. The MB manual from Tyan said you needed > to start with slot pair 4 which are the ones closest to the power connector. > Is it possible that the heat sink installation is shorting out to something? > >From the pictures it doesn't look likely, but you never know. Are you sure > that the CPU fan is OK? Try powering up without the CPU fan connected to the > MB. If everything starts to spin, then shut it down again or make sure you > have another fan blowing across the heat sink until you can get it shutdown. > And last since I've done this myself, so I always have to check, are you > sure that the jumper on JP25 (Clear BIOS) are on pins 1-2 and not 2-3? > > > > > > markh > > > > > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tyler Nugent > > > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 5:47 PM > > > To: PDXLUG, a Portland Linux user group > > > Subject: Re: [PDXLUG] Server nightmare > > > > > > > > > > > > yeah, I'd think it was a bad power supply too, save for the fact I've > tried 3 now.... > > > Motherboard isn't damaged - I sent it back to tyan and they say it works > fine for them. The processors are the only thing that I've not ruled out. > I can't image that I'd get 2 bad processors together though....I've tried > them both seperately. It'd be nice to find someone with a board that takes > these new nocona chips so I could test mine out. > > > > > > > > > On 5/2/05, Aaron Burt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 08:01:13PM -0700, Tyler Nugent wrote: > > > > > Can't get motherboard to power up with simplist hardware > configuration. With > > > > > 1 CPU in slot1, ATX24-pin and 8pin connected, heatsink fan connected > to > > > > > CPUFAN1 (no keyboard, no mouse, no video). The power supply fan > spins once > > > > > when activated, nothing on the board spins. Oddly, plugging the CPU > fan into > > > > > CPUFAN2 or any other fan header the fan will spin once when the > power supply > > > > > fan spins, but then nothing. Tyan tech says that this suggests that > stand-by > > > > > power is getting to the board, but the board is still unable to > power up > > > > > completely. > > > > > > > > By "spins once" you mean the fans make about one turn and then stop? > > > > > > > > Sounds like a bad power supply to me. I hope it hasn't damaged your > mobo. > > > > > > > > FreeGeek sells power supplies cheap. If you're friendly, the folks in > > > > the thrift store might let you bring in your machine, test your power > > > > supply there and try one of theirs. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > PDXLUG mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug > > > > IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug > > > > > > > > > > > > > > !DSPAM:4277f922226982103310049! > > > _______________________________________________ > PDXLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug > IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug > > _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
