S2895 - the continuing adventures

External Since: Jul 18, 2003 Posts: 37

Okay, so I now have a MSI K8T Master2-FAR test mule.
It POSTs with my Opteron 270s (doesn't ack the second
core, doesn't know what they are, so it settles for "AMD
Hammer".

I took the lone Opteron 242 and put it in my K8WE,
along with the 2x256MB chips, and that POST'd - this is
the first POST I have seen since I first powered up the
board in mid June!

Still can not fathom why it will not post with the
270s. However, that is my next step - replace the 242
with 1x270, leave the memory alone, and see what happens.

My first though was that I had a short on the chassis,
except that my last power attempt was on the floor mat,
so there was no metal to get in the way. Even when I tried
it on the chassis (sitting outside, as the PS was installed),
I had it sitting on the anti-static bag.

Anyway, I now know that all of the bits are good, it
is "simply" a matter of getting them to work together...

Bruce
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"I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX.
- Thuganlitha
The Power and the Prophet
Robert Don Hughes

External Since: Jul 18, 2003 Posts: 37

Bruce Burden <brucegb.DeleteThis@realtime.net> wrote:
:
: Okay, so I now have a MSI K8T Master2-FAR test mule.
: It POSTs with my Opteron 270s (doesn't ack the second
: core, doesn't know what they are, so it settles for "AMD
: Hammer".
:
Well, it was the power supply. Damn it!

I took the Opteron 242, 2x265MB memory, and installed
that in the Tyan Thunder K8WE. That worked.

Replace the Opteron 242 with the Opteron 270. That
worked.

Replace the 2x256MB memory with 2x512MB sticks. That
doesn't work. No POST. So, RMA time. After all, the PS
had allowed 1xOpteron 242, 2x256MB memory and 2x512MB
memory to POST on the MSI board, so the memory was good.

Now, it has been 10 weeks since I purchased the PS,
and I no longer have the original box. We'll see what PC
Power & Cooling has to say.

What about the second TC 1K I have? I don't know. I
didn't test it with a valid memory configuration, as I
only tried it with 1x512MB memory, and that isn't good.
It may well be bad, but I don't care - it goes back to
Fry's today.

Bruce
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"I like bad!" Bruce Burden Austin, TX.
- Thuganlitha
The Power and the Prophet
Robert Don Hughes