ASUS A7V8X mobo help??

hiya,
Im hoping for some help getting my system upgraded....Ive upgraded my
motherboard cpu and ram to a 2600 athlon a A7V8X and 512 of ram which i bought
all together and was told are all compatible ive upgraded from an athlon
1gig....for some reason i cant get into the bios when the 2600 is installed it
just stays at a blank screen or switches off as soon as i turn it on. Ive
updated the bios.
My old athlon 1gig works fine but the system is running hot i think 89/192
with the asus pcprobe software running. Ive just been out and got a bigger fan
a cooler master aero 7, still with same problem, the instructions are useless
and the asus website doesnt seem to have any info, so im hoping someone here
can help.
TIA.

Sounds like a CPU installation problem more than anything ..

Did you follow all of the common sense intructions.. (clean HSF base..
contacting cpu core neatly with sufficient thermal grease etc)
89c is egg frying temperature ....

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hiya,
Im hoping for some help getting my system upgraded....Ive upgraded my
motherboard cpu and ram to a 2600 athlon a A7V8X and 512 of ram which i
bought
all together and was told are all compatible ive upgraded from an athlon
1gig....for some reason i cant get into the bios when the 2600 is
installed it
just stays at a blank screen or switches off as soon as i turn it on.
Ive
updated the bios.
My old athlon 1gig works fine but the system is running hot i think
89/192
with the asus pcprobe software running. Ive just been out and got a bigger
fan
a cooler master aero 7, still with same problem, the instructions are
useless
and the asus website doesnt seem to have any info, so im hoping someone
here
can help.
TIA.

Remove your HSF and wipe any heatsink grease from the CPU die and look
carefully at the four corners of the die. If one of these corners are
chipped off your CPU is dead.
AMD dies are very delicate and care must be taken when clipping dowd the
HSF.

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hiya,
Im hoping for some help getting my system upgraded....Ive upgraded
my
motherboard cpu and ram to a 2600 athlon a A7V8X and 512 of ram which
i bought all together and was told are all compatible ive upgraded
from an athlon 1gig....for some reason i cant get into the bios when
the 2600 is installed it just stays at a blank screen or switches
off as soon as i turn it on. Ive updated the bios.
My old athlon 1gig works fine but the system is running hot i


Yeah, check the cpu socket. I just returned a a7v8x and when I got the new
one there was so litle clearance beneath the heatsink hold down tabs that I
crushed the ****in' core getting the heatsink on. Got a new mobo todat with
a different ziff socket and it went on easy and fine.

wha is the size of your power supply you need at last 300 watts more the
better most system come with 400 watt power supplies or bigger.
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(Ste4play) wrote in
:

hiya,
Im hoping for some help getting my system upgraded....Ive upgraded
my
motherboard cpu and ram to a 2600 athlon a A7V8X and 512 of ram which
i bought all together and was told are all compatible ive upgraded
from an athlon 1gig....for some reason i cant get into the bios when
the 2600 is installed it just stays at a blank screen or switches
off as soon as i turn it on. Ive updated the bios.
My old athlon 1gig works fine but the system is running hot i


Yeah, check the cpu socket. I just returned a a7v8x and when I got the new
one there was so litle clearance beneath the heatsink hold down tabs that
I
crushed the ****in' core getting the heatsink on. Got a new mobo todat
with
a different ziff socket and it went on easy and fine.