Re: Strange MOBO-ness

[Christian Jacobsen <cjjacobs@xxxxxxx>]

yeah I've been crawling all over the intel site.

I think Mr Brinks had the right thought... it only takes ECC PC133
memory.  I have a variety of PC100 and 133, but I dont think I have any
ECC.



On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 15:13 -0400, Dave Torrey wrote:
> Some server-class boards I've used take an inordinately long time to
> POST.  No apparent activity, and nothing to the screens for up to a
> minute or so.  Did you let it sit running for a while?  I'm not familiar
> with that board, but it does come up as a server board:
> 
> http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/SAI2/index.htm
> 
> Dave
> 
> On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 15:06 -0400, Christian Jacobsen wrote:
> > I recently came into a later generation dual P3 mobo - an Intel SAI2
> > (still in it's unopened retail box).  I have the processors for it
> > (1.26GHz tualatins) and memory and averything else.
> > 
> > it has onboard video.
> > 
> > the problem is that I can not get video out of the board or any video
> > cards I've tried in it (it's a PCI only mobo, so it was hard finding
> > cards - but the ones I found at least make it to the bios screen in
> > other mobos)  I've tested all the extra parts (ram, video, processors)
> > in another computer and they all work fine.
> > 
> > everything else comes on, all the fans, drives (when I tried with them
> > in), lights and stuff.  and it does NOT make any beeps.  (I tried
> > turning it on without memory and I got the approperiate beep sequence)
> > 
> > I've tried a couple power supplies to no avail
> > 
> > ANY ideas what I could be missing to get this board going?
> > 
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > RMind