seeking relief from a7a woes

[mad_krons]

hello,
im usually quite independant but on this issue i come seeking guidance from the wisdom of the foroms. youve probably heard this one:
my a7a-266 will not boot. with tested parts: athlon 1ghz, infineon 256mb pc133 sdram, sapphire radeon 9200 or ati rage pro turbo agp 2x, and i have ddr ram from other computers and a new 350w suppy.
installed jumper-free mode jumper and voltage jumper as per the manual, set all dip switches to off, except 5 for the sdram. nadda. led is on, fans spin, power is running. when switch is off for the ddr and using some pc2700 (supposed to work fine, run slower) i get the loop beeps, meaning theres no ram, as per the manual. ***. at this point my left eye is twitching. i put the thing on a cardboard box and it doesnt go. the thing will not post. what else. i got a maxtor 34098h for pri master on a 80pin cable with a little notch on the one wire on one end and an lg burner on a 40 pin for second master. ive also tried to manually adjust the bus speeds and the mutiplier to no avail. if anyone knows what to do next please post a reply, or just tell me i have a dead mobo and forever ruin my trusted relationship with asus. thank you

[laing veitch]

I don't mean to be cheeky but are you trying to run the board with both sdram ans ddr ram at the same time ??? if so it will not work you must use one or the other. If your not then sorry

[zapionics<alt>]

Originally Posted by mad_krons

... at this point my left eye is twitching. ...

I wonder if he ever got it working. Hope so, the A7A was a very reliable and robust board!