Intel D865GLC/D865PESO mobo pc will not start

I'm building two PCs with the D865GLC/D865PESO motherboard

http://support.intel.com/design/motherbd/so/index.htm

3e GHz (3.0) Prescott (hyper threading) Pentium 4 processor with two
sticks each of (Intel approved) Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512 512MB RAM.

Both PCs (with different 400W power supplies) behave the exact same
way, no matter what: The system powers up, the fans spin, the
harddrive spins... but nothing else happens. No system beeps, no
video, no nothing.

I've already tried the first block's suggestions from here:

http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010696.htm

This motherboard can run RAM in parallel (which is why each box has
two sticks) and I've tried every permutation of those, with and
without the matching stick.

I've tried with and without an external (versus onboard) AGP video,
with and without the Floppy drive, and harddrives and CD drives...

At first one of them would only power itself on then turn off after a
split second, so I reseated the processor and after that the PC would
power on and stay on.

Right now I'd be happy getting to the BIOS, heck I'd be happy with a
damn post-test! The only things connected to the motherboard at this
point are the two power supply connectors (per ATX12V specs) and..
well.. that's it! I tried taking out the RAM alltogether and still no
action. I removed the floppy and hard drives, the external sound and
video cards, all of the wires to the motherboard except the POWER_SW
wire... you name it, it's removed!

I can't find ANYTHING useful about the D865PESO. The only info I've
found at all has been for the D865GLC, and according to this page:

http://developer.intel.com/design/mo...lc/lc_proc.htm

(which only lists the D865GLC not the D865PESO, so maybe it's
nothing... but...) it says "The following motherboard revisions
support this processor." Where my motherboard version is C28903-402
and for the GLC the "or better" version is "C28903-405". Like I said,
this is for the GLC not the PESO but I couldn't find an equivalent
page for the PESO.

There's nothing left that I can think to do! I've even pulled the
battery, reseated the power connectors to the motherboard, and for the
heck of it set the BIOS CONFIG jumper from Normal to Recovery and then
Configure... just in case! No good, of course

Any clues? Any ideas?! HEEELP!

Gabriel.

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"Gabriel." <cooperg@myrealbox.com> wrote in message
news:4476f241.0408182143.45a759d0@posting.google.c om...
> I'm building two PCs with the D865GLC/D865PESO motherboard
>
> http://support.intel.com/design/motherbd/so/index.htm
>
> 3e GHz (3.0) Prescott (hyper threading) Pentium 4 processor with two
> sticks each of (Intel approved) Kingston KVR400X64C3A/512 512MB RAM.
>
> Both PCs (with different 400W power supplies) behave the exact same
> way, no matter what: The system powers up, the fans spin, the
> harddrive spins... but nothing else happens. No system beeps, no
> video, no nothing.
>
> I've already tried the first block's suggestions from here:
>
> http://support.intel.com/support/mot.../CS-010696.htm
>
> This motherboard can run RAM in parallel (which is why each box has
> two sticks) and I've tried every permutation of those, with and
> without the matching stick.
>
> I've tried with and without an external (versus onboard) AGP video,
> with and without the Floppy drive, and harddrives and CD drives...
>
> At first one of them would only power itself on then turn off after a
> split second, so I reseated the processor and after that the PC would
> power on and stay on.
>
> Right now I'd be happy getting to the BIOS, heck I'd be happy with a
> damn post-test! The only things connected to the motherboard at this
> point are the two power supply connectors (per ATX12V specs) and..
> well.. that's it! I tried taking out the RAM alltogether and still no
> action. I removed the floppy and hard drives, the external sound and
> video cards, all of the wires to the motherboard except the POWER_SW
> wire... you name it, it's removed!
>
> I can't find ANYTHING useful about the D865PESO. The only info I've
> found at all has been for the D865GLC, and according to this page:
>
> http://developer.intel.com/design/mo...lc/lc_proc.htm
>
> (which only lists the D865GLC not the D865PESO, so maybe it's
> nothing... but...) it says "The following motherboard revisions
> support this processor." Where my motherboard version is C28903-402
> and for the GLC the "or better" version is "C28903-405". Like I said,
> this is for the GLC not the PESO but I couldn't find an equivalent
> page for the PESO.

The page you refer to says that you need AA version C28903-405 or
later. You say you have version C28903-402, which will not work
with a Prescott CPU, definitely because it doesn't have a BIOS
that recognizes or supports Prescott, and possibly because the
motherboard components cannot support Prescott.

Your best bet would be to return the motherboard and exchange it
for a more recent revision. If you can't do this, you can try borrowing
a Northwood or Celeron CPU to get the system going, and then
update the BIOS to the latest version. You can then try using
the Prescott CPU and see if it now works (it still may not).

If you have trouble getting the borrowed CPU to boot up, try
booting the system with no memory installed at all. You'll get
a warning beep from the onboard speaker (because the CPU
is working and finds no memory), and this will reset the BIOS
to where it will boot up the next time, after you've re-installed
the memory.

Bob

>
> There's nothing left that I can think to do! I've even pulled the
> battery, reseated the power connectors to the motherboard, and for the
> heck of it set the BIOS CONFIG jumper from Normal to Recovery and then
> Configure... just in case! No good, of course
>
> Any clues? Any ideas?! HEEELP!
>
> Gabriel.