Asrock MB needs jumpers for multiplier?

TimTim Southwest PA Icrontian
edited September 2006 in Hardware
I just got an Asrock K7VM3 motherboard. It's new, but it is just the MB and cables. I downloaded the online manual from the company website.

I put in an Athlon MP1600, a stick of 256 MB DDR333 RAM, and wired it up to known good parts. It didn't do much of anything. Nothing appeared on the screen.

There are 5 rows of 3 pins each to set the multiplier. I set it to what should have been 10.5, the stock setting for the 1600 CPU (1.4 Ghz). I also set the FSB jumper to the 266 position, which meant using no jumper.

I also tried booting the system with no pins on the multiplier pins, with no changes.

Any ideas what it might need to work? I had the MB sitting on its antistatic pink foam on a cardboard box, tomorrow I'll try bolting it into a computer case and wire it up properly. Hopefully that will work better.

I think I just forgot to do something, but I'm not sure what.

No, it's not the clear CMOS jumper, I checked that already.

Comments

  • Datsun-1600Datsun-1600 Sydney.au
    edited September 2006
    Of the Asrocks I have run, you have to clear the CMOS first and on one a flat battery was installed, replaced the battery, wallah, posted fine.

    Datsun 1600
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