KD7-S fails to boot to POST

I have just bought a Abit KD7-S, PC2700 memory(512MB) Gainward GeForce
FX5200 graphics card, 450W PSU and AMD XP2600+ FSB333 processor.
The only time I get to the POST screen, ie the monitor light is green,
not orange) is when I erase the BIOS. It comes up with several
messages :
"Processor unworkable or has been changed - Please reboot - CPU
SOFTMENU"
or
"loading default BIOS settings"
If I press F1 to continue, get to DOS prompt from boot floppy, all is
fine (can't see SATA HDD at the mo, but that is another problem).
Pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot, nothing appears on the screen. I have
upgraded to BIOS 13 (date 4th April 2003) - no difference.
Any ideas?

Have you reset the bios since you installed the mobo in the case?
Accidently shorting the lithium battery (terminals on pc board)
against the case will cause corruption of the bios data. A reset
should do it.

Forrest

Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
http://home.attbi.com/~hal-9000/


On 11 Jul 2003 00:11:31 -0700, (Ian) wrote:

I have just bought a Abit KD7-S, PC2700 memory(512MB) Gainward GeForce
FX5200 graphics card, 450W PSU and AMD XP2600+ FSB333 processor.
The only time I get to the POST screen, ie the monitor light is green,
not orange) is when I erase the BIOS. It comes up with several
messages :
"Processor unworkable or has been changed - Please reboot - CPU
SOFTMENU"
or
"loading default BIOS settings"
If I press F1 to continue, get to DOS prompt from boot floppy, all is
fine (can't see SATA HDD at the mo, but that is another problem).
Pressing CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot, nothing appears on the screen. I have
upgraded to BIOS 13 (date 4th April 2003) - no difference.
Any ideas?