[Bradford] Need help with new motherboard

John archery0112 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 21 00:56:14 UTC 2014


Hi John,

It's been a while since I have as well. Could it be an issue with the
memory? If you haven't already, I'd switch to the other DIMM socket
(assuming you're using one stick). It also might be fussy about the
memory it takes.

John

On 20/08/14 23:09, John Poltorak wrote:
> It's over ten years since I last built my own system but foolishly I
> thought I would try it again but I can't even get it to a BIOS boot
> screen.
> 
> Can someone suggest what I can try to get the thing working?
> 
> The MB is a Supermicro X10SBA-L.
> 
> There is a manual for it here;-
> 
> ftp://supermicro.com/CDR-X10-UP_1.10_for_Intel_X10_UP_platform/MANUALS/X10SBA.pdf
> 
> When I power on I get a few LEDs on the MB and some beep codes when no
> memory is installed. If I install memory there is no beep, although I
> hear the hard disk start up, and if I insert a network cable some
> lights flash on the LAN port so I know there is life in the MB.
> 
> Any suggestions what I should try?
> 
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