Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 no post with IDE drive attached

Assembled new GA-M61SME-S2 mainboard, 450 watt power supply, AMD Athlon
64x2 2.3GHz cpu, 1 MB DDR2@800 memory, 160 MB WD SATA hard drive,
floppy, and IDE cdrom. System will only post if the IDE cdrom is not
attached to the motherboard. Tried another known working cdrom drive and
different IDE cable, no post. Tried shorting the cmos pins, no joy.
What do I need to try next?
Thanks, jdyer

Is the Cd drive set for cable select, master or slave?


"jsdyer" <jsdyer@_remove_centurytel.net> wrote in message
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> Assembled new GA-M61SME-S2 mainboard, 450 watt power supply, AMD Athlon
> 64x2 2.3GHz cpu, 1 MB DDR2@800 memory, 160 MB WD SATA hard drive, floppy,
> and IDE cdrom. System will only post if the IDE cdrom is not attached to
> the motherboard. Tried another known working cdrom drive and different IDE
> cable, no post. Tried shorting the cmos pins, no joy. What do I need to
> try next?
> Thanks, jdyer

I found the problem...motherboard was shorting out on one of its
standoffs. I used a small tab of electrical tape on the bottom of the
board at each screw hole and that solved the problem, for now. Board
posts and works fine now.

On 1/2/2008 8:48 AM, Keith:
> Is the Cd drive set for cable select, master or slave?
>
>
> "jsdyer" <jsdyer@_remove_centurytel.net> wrote in message
> news:c_udnRcYOOaDXOjanZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@centurytel.n et...
>> Assembled new GA-M61SME-S2 mainboard, 450 watt power supply, AMD Athlon
>> 64x2 2.3GHz cpu, 1 MB DDR2@800 memory, 160 MB WD SATA hard drive, floppy,
>> and IDE cdrom. System will only post if the IDE cdrom is not attached to
>> the motherboard. Tried another known working cdrom drive and different IDE
>> cable, no post. Tried shorting the cmos pins, no joy. What do I need to
>> try next?
>> Thanks, jdyer
>
>

On Jan 3, 5:03 pm, jsdyer <jsdyer@_remove_centurytel.net> wrote:
> I found the problem...motherboard was shorting out on one of its
> standoffs. I used a small tab of electrical tape on the bottom of the
> board at each screw hole and that solved the problem, for now. Board
> posts and works fine now.
>
> On 1/2/2008 8:48 AM, Keith:
>
> > Is the Cd drive set for cable select, master or slave?
>
> > "jsdyer" <jsdyer@_remove_centurytel.net> wrote in message
> >news:c_udnRcYOOaDXOjanZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@centurytel. net...
> >> Assembled new GA-M61SME-S2 mainboard, 450 watt power supply, AMD Athlon
> >> 64x2 2.3GHz cpu, 1 MB DDR2@800 memory, 160 MB WD SATA hard drive, floppy,
> >> and IDE cdrom. System will only post if the IDE cdrom is not attached to
> >> the motherboard. Tried another known working cdrom drive and different IDE
> >> cable, no post. Tried shorting the cmos pins, no joy. What do I need to
> >> try next?
> >> Thanks, jdyer

just had same problem and fixed it by ensuring ram was seated on 2nd
slot, first slot on two new mobo's has exhibited same fault - no post.
but when changed ram to second slot all worked fine.

On 29 ene, 18:41, syko...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Jan 3, 5:03 pm, jsdyer <jsdyer@_remove_centurytel.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I found the problem...motherboard was shorting out on one of its
> > standoffs. I used a small tab of electrical tape on the bottom of the
> > board at each screw hole and that solved the problem, for now. Board
> > posts and works fine now.
>
> > On 1/2/2008 8:48 AM, Keith:
>
> > > Is the Cd drive set for cable select, master or slave?
>
> > > "jsdyer" <jsdyer@_remove_centurytel.net> wrote in message
> > >news:c_udnRcYOOaDXOjanZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@centurytel. net...
> > >> Assembled new GA-M61SME-S2 mainboard, 450 watt power supply, AMD Athlon
> > >> 64x2 2.3GHz cpu, 1 MB DDR2@800 memory, 160 MB WD SATA hard drive, floppy,
> > >> and IDE cdrom. System will only post if the IDE cdrom is not attached to
> > >> the motherboard. Tried another known working cdrom drive and different IDE
> > >> cable, no post. Tried shorting the cmos pins, no joy. What do I need to
> > >> try next?
> > >> Thanks, jdyer
>
> just had same problem and fixed it by ensuring ram was seated on 2nd
> slot, first slot on two new mobo's has exhibited same fault - no post.
> but when changed ram to second slot all worked fine.

I have the same problem that sykodad describe... my motherboard is a
Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 and a Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ with kingston
RAM PC6400 Dual Channel memory (kit 2 x 1GB) 800MHz when I put this
memory my computer dont response but when I connected one in single
seated on 2nd slot the computer run correctly but never with both rams
please can you help me, tell me how solve this problem

regards
neo

pontiacsb@gmail.com wrote:
> On 29 ene, 18:41, syko...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Jan 3, 5:03 pm, jsdyer <jsdyer@_remove_centurytel.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I found the problem...motherboard was shorting out on one of its
>>> standoffs. I used a small tab of electrical tape on the bottom of the
>>> board at each screw hole and that solved the problem, for now. Board
>>> posts and works fine now.
>>> On 1/2/2008 8:48 AM, Keith:
>>>> Is the Cd drive set for cable select, master or slave?
>>>> "jsdyer" <jsdyer@_remove_centurytel.net> wrote in message
>>>> news:c_udnRcYOOaDXOjanZ2dnUVZ_ualnZ2d@centurytel.n et...
>>>>> Assembled new GA-M61SME-S2 mainboard, 450 watt power supply, AMD Athlon
>>>>> 64x2 2.3GHz cpu, 1 MB DDR2@800 memory, 160 MB WD SATA hard drive, floppy,
>>>>> and IDE cdrom. System will only post if the IDE cdrom is not attached to
>>>>> the motherboard. Tried another known working cdrom drive and different IDE
>>>>> cable, no post. Tried shorting the cmos pins, no joy. What do I need to
>>>>> try next?
>>>>> Thanks, jdyer
>> just had same problem and fixed it by ensuring ram was seated on 2nd
>> slot, first slot on two new mobo's has exhibited same fault - no post.
>> but when changed ram to second slot all worked fine.
>
> I have the same problem that sykodad describe... my motherboard is a
> Gigabyte GA-M61SME-S2 and a Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6000+ with kingston
> RAM PC6400 Dual Channel memory (kit 2 x 1GB) 800MHz when I put this
> memory my computer dont response but when I connected one in single
> seated on 2nd slot the computer run correctly but never with both rams
> please can you help me, tell me how solve this problem
>
> regards
> neo
This board is rated for 1.8v DDR2 DIMMs Most of the PC6400/800 DIMMs
that I could find when looking at a similar setup are rated at 2.1v.
I had enough doubt about the compatibility that I used 2 DDR2 667 DIMMs
with a AMD Athlon 64X2 6400+ and have had no problems.
I'm not sure if the voltage difference would cause it to fail or not.
There are some DDR2 800 DIMMs that operate at 1.8v but not many.
It might be worth changing to see if that is the problem.