A7N8X-X + Athlon XP 3200 (AXDA3200DKV4E)

[Leos]

I have the A7N8X-X revision 2.0 MB with 1010 version of BIOS. I am upgrading processor to Athlon XP 3200 but nothing boots (even BIOS). The monitor is blank, harddrive and cdrom starts then stops. Then nothing else happens. No beeping error codes. Absolutely nothing.

Any advice?

Thank you.

[jamesjameson]

All A7N8X-X should support Athlon XP 3200+ so maybe CPU is damaged: you can try to look to the core (if it is damaged to your eyes)
You can also try to control there is a good thermal contact from CPU core and heatsink (with temoconductive paste too!): maybe it overheat and shut down fast!

Be careful managing heatsink: the core is really easy to destroy setting up heatsink!

[jamesjameson]

Other idea... not so good but easy to try...

Be sure that power pack generator is good for that CPU... try to disconnect some power requests temporaneally (HD, CDROM, USB external links....) What CPU did you had on that motherboard before?

[jamesjameson]

Have a look of the post "Installing AMD Athlon XP 3200-AXDA3200DKV4E what went wrong?" in this section, it is interesting for you, too!

[gshv]

Try to reset the CMOS.

Gennadiy

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