New Mobo won't boot

Can someone help me out? I just built a new machine with KT4 Ultra mainboard, Athlon 2200+ XP CPU, and Kingston DDRAM 512M/333 PC-2700 memory. I have Win2000 installed on the HDD already, and I am trying to get it to start up. Power on: All fans and drives pwr up and ethernet card lights come on. Monitor stays in black screen, memory does not count up, keyboard does not test or respond, no way to shut down but hold power button for 8 seconds. After several attempts, I took out the new 512M Kingston memory and installed APACER 256M PC133. System started normally and booted through windows security screen. Windows began finding and installing drivers for the new mainboard, and needed restart. I let the machine restart, and now had the same problem again. It comes to black screen and I can't even get to the bios setup screen. I don't have any more memory to try this again, but I put the 256 stick back in my old machine and it works fine. I have built lots of machines, and never had this problem before. What's up?

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Originally posted by Piiooo
Early chipset initialization is one of the very first checkpoints during bootlog initialization of BIOS.
I would start your system with default BIOS settings or play with chipset features in your BIOS.
Also, eliminate all expansion cards except video card.
Leave all fan connectors alone for now, except the CPU fan connector of course. For testing purposes you need the simplest possible configuration. You can add other components one by one only if you have steady system.
Hope this helps,
Take care.
Thanks for your response. I haven't been able to get the bios screen to display, so I can't do anything with it. I have not used any of the fan connectors except the cpu fan (of course) and I haven't tried to start the board without a HDD yet. I will do so tonight when I get back to it. I also have a spare video card that I will try, but so far, all of my parts work fine (including the memory) in my Shuttle AK31 mainboard.
Do you have any advice for me when I have to pull my CPU fan and processor off this board? I don't want to take any chances that I might damage it when I attempt to clean off the thermal tape and put more on. Do I even have to replace it?

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elvenkind wrote:
I bought a new i3 iMac and skipped the migration assistant initially. Things were going fantastic, I imported and built a new iTunes library, iPhoto library etc.
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KT6V New system won't boot.

I have a new system witha KT6V LSR, AMD Athlon 2600+, Barton, 133/266FSB, 512K cache. ATI Radeon 7200 video card. PNY PC 3200 - 512MB. OKIA Power suppley 450W, 3.3V 28A, 5V - 50A, 12V - 18A.
This system hangs immediately. Never shows me the CMOS screen. D - bracket shows 4 red lights > defective or improperly installed CPU. Both the MB and CPU have been returned once. Is this CPU and MB combination incompatible? What am I missing?

Man, I had a MSI KT6V and i got the same problems, 4 Red Leds. Did you set the Fast Command of the memory to FAST or ULTRA?. My problem was for it.
I had to Change the mobo, and in the store i changed it for a MSI KT6 DELTA but i don´t want to set the fast command, just normal and no more. Try disconnecting 12V Cable of the Mobo, Power Cable, Battery, and reset CMOS, then Connect everything again and proof it. Try with another memory, it can solve the problem, if the problem dissapears, then reinstall your other memory again.

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