[ale] Chaintech SKT600 motherboard

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 20:01 -0500, Greg wrote:
> I recently bought a Chaintech SKT600 motherboard and a AMD Duron 1.6GHz
> Socket A Processor to run a low end box and I can't even get it to POST - it
> just beeps like crazy.  If I move the FSB jumpers around there is no beeping
> but it still won't POST.  I have searched the web and it seems that
> Chaintech has little "gotchas" that aren't advertised on their site or other
> sites.  I have a vid card in the AGP slot, mouse and keyboard attached
> correctly, and re-checked the wiring.  A floppy drive and hard drive are
> attached also.
> 
> I just wondered if anyone on the list has any experience with this
> particular motherboard.  Any tips / hints would be appreciated.

No experience with that particular board but experience with several
other models from Chaintech. My advice: find the receipt and return it.
Keep the cpu and put it in another board by a different maker. The docs
with Chaintech are so bad that they might as well not bother printing
them. Configuration of their boards is a trial and error process. One
model I fought with had jumpers labeled different from the printed docs.
Extensive Google searches found a post where some one had put test
equipment on the board and figured out that both the board print and the
manual were wrong and figured out the correct jumper sequence.

The price difference between a Chaintech and the next lowest board maker
is well worth having docs that are closer to factual.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Greg
> 
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