No post with sam400ep?

[carvedeye]

Hi all im trying to get my Sam440EP System up and running but im getting no post i have connected a 20 pin ATX PSU to the power connector and attached the power switch ,reset and power led to it but im getting no post i have tryed  it with 512mb dimm with  it a nd with out it any ideas have missed something?

TIA Ray

[carvedeye]

any one ? there must be someone who can help im in panic mode here?

[carvedeye]

i bought it on ebay from a member of a.org?

[carvedeye]

its a brand new case and a brand new psu?

[carvedeye]

there are jumper switches near the cmos battery do i need to set them or something?

[carvedeye]

could it be because it was from norway and im in britain that i need to change something on the motherboard?

[carvedeye]

...is there a power switch on the back of the PSU?

Any power to the drives when you try turning it on?

Yeah power switch is on. im getting power just no post/screen it just keeps saying no signal on my monitor? i hope to god the board is not dead. i build pc's as a hobby and have been doing this for 13 years and usually when this happens with a motherboard it is faulty im just praying this is not the case im getting power to the drives, ive ejected the cd drive etc and it works fine im just stumped?

[carvedeye]

I have 0 (ZERO) experience with SAM, but some PC motherboards used to ship with the clear CMOS jumper set and you have to change this jumper before using it. You really need a manual, maybe Acube has one online for download?

no CMOS Jumper on the board but i did take out the battery and tryed it that way but still no luck.

[carvedeye]

dont know what i did but.......ITS ALIVE woohoo.

[carvedeye]

Believe it or not I think it was because I did not have the USB keyboard and mouse connected when I was trying to boot however I'm trying to install aos4.1 on to the hard drive but it hangs I'm guessing this is because it is a 640 gb hd where as I think the Sam only supports upto 500 gb or am I wrong?

[carvedeye]

I have the manual. So a hard drive bigger than 500 gb will work?

[carvedeye]

What do you mean cd rom based do you mean like a live cd?

[carvedeye]

I have made some progress (well sort of) I went and purchased a new sata2 hard drive and hooked it up to the Sam booted up and managed to get go the workbench screen followed the onscreen stuff like setting up the languages and stuff got to the hard drive part tried to partition hard drive but an error came up saying it could not format the drive so I restarted the system to start over again and now every time I try to start the installation it hangs on the amigaos 4.1 screen any ideas ?

[carvedeye]

That's great but my problem is that when I first tried to install amiga os 4.1 I got all the way to the partition screen try to format cd0 (which I forgot was the DVD drive not the hard drive) so decided to restart the system and start over again but when it is finished installing the kickstart config and I'm presented with the amiga Os 4.1 screen it hangs, I'm getting no drive. Activity at all.

[carvedeye]

Puni/Void am i doing something wrong? did i do something to the hard drive?