Help for SIS 648 MAX-L Startup Problem

I just bought an MSI-648MAX-L, a 2.4GHz cpu and a Jaton GeForce4 TI4200 card. Installed all of the above + PC2700 512 MB RAM and a WD 80GB hard drive, floppy and CD. Turn on the power and my screen flickers all four of the diagnostic leds light up green and then nothing. I hear the hard drive spinning and the CPU fan and video card fan but nothing else. Tried one other AGP video card and a PCI video card but nothing on the screen. Seems like the BIOS is not loading. So I turn the computer off and set the BIOS reset jumper. Turn it back on again and still nothing. Checked all the connections, the seating of the CPU and tried again, still nothing. Any idea what might be wrong?? I hope I don't have to buy another MotherBoard and also I hate the idea of removing my CPU once installed. ;(
Thanks for your help..
Kumar.

What kind of video card is it?
If it's a radeon 9700 pro, look in one of the other threads on this site to figure out what revision you have, rev 1.1 or 1.2 9700 pros will not work on some 648 max boards ( well for me it was 648 max L im not sure about the 648 max but im assuming it has the same problem.
What happens with radeon is since the mobo sets the agp automatically, and there is the 8x bug the system doesnt boot. But the card will work fine on machines that have 4x, In this case RMA the card to radeon and make sure to specifiy that you get a 1.3 rev.
Otherwise you stated you have tried other processors and memory that were "known" to be good.
DDR 400 or DDR 333 memory?

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Resource Device
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7   PCI bus
I/O Port 0x00000000-0x00000CF7   Direct memory access controller
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see i dont kno. its a 350w psu, and it seems almost as if the ram bank is bad, ie the slot where the ddr mem goes. i change it to a diff bank and it works. starts up fine. but the next restart, will not run. see this is what happens.
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How can i set RAM speed? Plz give me step by step exp
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Tom

Hi Tommen,
I can not give no a step by step guide, for that I know to little. Under the "Frequency/Voltage Control" you can set the CPU/DRAM ratio. When you change the ratio you can see the DRAM freq. just below. For DDR400 it should say 200MHz.
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You are the master computer genius. I relooked athe the drive and it looks like the mufacturer put the connecter in the drive but the nothch for the cable to slide in as a guide was not cut out. the notch was cut out on top but not the bottom. When i cut the notch out on the bottom of the connecter and slid the cable in the drive worked normal. Thanks again for the help.

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So my question is: what memory should I use to be sure that 2 or 3 chips will be OK ?
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Originally posted by EricUSA
I've tried all these combination, using only slot 1, or 2 , or 3, putting 2 chips, or 2. No way, it only works with 1 chip.
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What kind of bios setting would you guys suggest ??
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Edited:BTW I guess I should ask. On your first post, when you say it wont boot. Can you still get into the BIOS?

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On my MSI 648MAX mainboard,
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Greg

Greg, did you ever resolve this? I have a similar problem
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Quote from: Stu on 23-September-06, 05:23:39
then leave it at that then. the actual real-life performance difference between 4X and 8X is negligible
Thanks, just asking...I guess I answered my own question!

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hi i hope you can help me, i bought my son a cheap second hand PC from a car boot sale, inside which is an MSI 648 max motherboard,
the problem i have is i am trying to attach a larger hard drive which is locked, usually to unlock the HDD i run a bootable cd-rom which is fine however when i try to boot the computer i get a message stating the hard drive is locked and i have 5 attempts to enter the password.
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i hope i have given enough information but if you need anymore i shall happily provide
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Glenn

If the hard drive is still servicable you can use a bootable cd or floppy to erase the contents of the hard drive.
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