Once again I am writing a post on my laptop because my desktop is down.
The good news: My Asus A7N8X-E deluxe and Athlon xp 2600+ barton came today.
The bad news: My new setup won't POST.
What I have tried:
1. Took mobo out of case and tried it on the box it came in.....didn't POST.
2. Tried my old Athlon XP 2100+ in the new mobo.....didn't POST.
3. Tried my new Athlon XP 2600+ in my old mobo.....Detected as AXP 1800+, system works!
4. Tried a fresh CMOS battery....system didn't POST
5. Tried a PCI graphics card..... sytem didn't POST
6. tried disconnecting everything but the graphics card ..... system doesn't POST
the entire time i've been trying all of these things, I have not gotten any audible error codes or voice error codes.
I talked to ASUS and was put on a callback list. at this point, i've been waiting for ASUS to call me back for nearly 3 hours. Has anyone else had this problem? Or, does anyone know how to fix it?