A7N266-VM-AA Bios Question.....

[CurtCold]

I just purchased another one of these motherboards, and for some reason i'm having all kinds of problems out of it.

The Heatsink fan comes on, and after about 5 seconds the board begins beeping in a high frequency loop. The manual says that a high frequency loop is either overheating, or a video problem.

I've tried a different heatsink, ram, even cpu, still get the same result. Anyone else have this prob?

A7N266-VM-AA
1800+ (Retail Heatsink)
512 MB Pc2100 Crucial Ram
350Watt PSU

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Kenazo]

I've built about 5 or 6 computers with that mobo, and all have worked good. I'd RMA It

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I've built 4 myself now, and the latest one I built a couple weeks ago did the alarm beeping during P95TT with 3DMock looping stability testing, I never had a problem with the others. Monitor went dead and the system did not respond to the reset button so I switched it off from the PSU. I opened it up and felt the CPU cooler and it was fine, the NB heatsink was scorching though! :Q After a few minutes I closed it up, switch the PSU on, pushed power and it booted right up, I checked the temps in the bios and all looked fine, I picked ignore for the Fan speeds and saved&exited. I started the stability testing again and it went all night and most the next day silky smooth despite the NB heatsink getting quite toasty again, so I have no idea why it went into Alarm mode unless the fan speeds dipped low/ were misread or something Long story, short, try ignoring the fan speeds and see if it goes away, if not RMA as suggested.

 

[CurtCold]

Thanks guys, i'm going to RMA to NewEgg today. I've used this board probably 5 times now, and never had a problem, I can't get video at all to change anything in the bios. Hopefully the replacement will be better.

 

[mechBgon]

Any chance you've got the heatsink on backwards? We have about 30 of them here where I work and I've never seen them do that, but there's a first time for everything. Better luck with the new one

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Any chance you've got the heatsink on backwards? We have about 30 of them here where I work and I've never seen them do that, but there's a first time for everything. Better luck with the new one

that fan would be very quiet.