Motherboard troubles 1

[garwain]

I have a new ASUS A7M266-D board and when I boot the machine it beeps once to show POST was successful, which is followed by a series of about 10 fast beeps, then I get display another short series of fast beeps and I'm thrown into the BIOS Advanced tab.

There are several bugs with the settings shown (I'm in jumperless mode). I get a FSB Frequency of 100MHZ and a processor at 1050Mhz (it's a 1.6Ghz processor). I would change these to the proper settings except that the PS2 keyboard doesn't repond.

Any ideas?

 

[CitrixEngineer]

I would suspect a stuck key.

One of my users had a similar problem recently, and I turned her keyboard upside down. 11 paperclips and a cloud of breadcrumbs fell onto the desk - and a poking-out bit of metal revealed another paperclip wrapped around the base of one of the keys.

Her face did a very passable impression of a belisha beacon.

Also check that none of those tiny pins on the PS/2 plug at the end of the keyboard have become bent.


I hope this helps

 

[garwain]

I've tried with 2 PS2 keyboards, one of which is fresh out of the box, and both work fine on other comnputers.

 

[Chrissirhc]

Try a friends keyboard if theres one easily accessable.

 

[CitrixEngineer]

It sounds like the keyboard controller on the motherboard is faulty, if you have tried other keyboards that work elsewhere. This is fairly rare, but I've seen it happen a few times. Your vendor should be able to replace the motherboard.

Your second issue is very common;

By default your BIOS will be conservative about bus/processor speeds. It should have set the multiplier correctly, but the FSB speed will be set to 100Mhz. You should be able to change this to 133Mhz in the BIOS.

You say that your processor runs at 1.6Ghz. Are you sure? Which Athlon is it?

If it's an XP 1600+, it runs at 1.4Ghz (bus speed 133Mhz, multiplier 10.5). These processors always "autodetect" at 1050Mhz (100x10.5). Personally, I think that AMDs new "performance-related" numbering system is a bit confusing.

I hope this helps