I've got a customer who reset the CMOS on his Iwill XP333 by accident (the jumper is next to the RAID enable jumper), now the system refuses to boot. Any ideas what I can do about it?
was the pc on when he did it as that screws it up and how can you do it by accident? He might not have put the jumper back to the right place.
He did it thinking it was the RAID enable jumper as they're right next to eachother. I don't think he would be stupid enough to do it while its on. I think it's the RAM at fault now as it has started doing the long beeps, the guy just dropped off another stick of memory and 2x maxtor 60gbs he wants me to set up in RAID 0, but he brought SDR instead of DDR, idiot!
If the CMOS is giving error beep codes it may well indicate that it is not dead! Like you said, try some new RAM on it and go from there!
Ok, put a new stick of DDR in (noname supplied by customer), system booted first time into Windows. Rebooted a couple of times, now system is refusing to start again with no beeps! Is this system trying to give me a nervous breakdown!!!! I can't for the life of me find the problem, it's a 300watt PSU but I unplugged everything else anyway, the CPU was @ 24 C when it worked, I've swapped out cards, I'm stuck now. I've never had a job I couldn't do but it looks like I have one here.
The XP333 is really really fussy with the memory it uses, try using either crucial or samsung stick if you can. Also put the jumper to 133 as 100 wouldn't boot for me neither, then got the bios and set it to 133 in there (assuming ita an athlon). Hope this works, and you aint had the trouble I had all due to 1 stick of memory that working in another board but not the iwill and the dumb fecker sold the memory with the board to me.
Thanks for your help, I had a look around on the Iwill forums, and found out about the memory problems you described. I took the motherboard out and put it on a table, then pushed the sticks in very hard, then connected to a 150w psu on the table and it booted! Problem solved, I thought, until I put it back in the case..... No boot, so I connected back to the 150w and it booted. That's the second problem with the Iwills, they are picky about power supplies. A nice 300w causes a no boot, but I now have the entire system including 2 hard drives running fine off 150w. I will see what happens when I install the other 2 hard drives, and all the pci cards. At the moment its formatting its mamoth 120gb RAID volume. Consequently, you won't see an Iwill in my new system
Its a bloody good board when you get it working, but it is stubbon board that needs quality memory (It doesn't like most 512mb sticks) and psu.
