I really need help with M2A-VM

Funerall · May 5th, 2009, 06:42 PM

Hello my friends. I have an Asus M2A-VM motherboard. Today I bought a new processor AMD Athlon X2 7750. Before replacing new CPU I updated BIOS version to the latest version. And there was nothing wrong.

Than I replaced my new CPU. But now when I try to start my computer it just stops. No vision on LCD and no sound. I press the button and all fans run but nothing happens. Once I could reach BIOS but then my PC just stunned. Doesn't allow to do something in BIOS. After a few minutes and a lot resets I recieved this message;

########## Warning: System BOOT Fail #########

Your system maybe OverClock fail or POST interrupted. Please reset you BIOS settings to defaults...

I never overclocked my CPU. Other components of my PC;

AMD Athlon X2 3600+ @ 1.9GHz (Old CPU)
Asus M2A-VM
Kingston 1GB DDR2 667MHz (2*512MB)
Unknow PSU 480W peak
ATI HD 3850
Seagate 320GB 7200.10 HDD SATA2
Samsung WriteMaster 20X Sata DVD-RW

I updated BIOS with Asus Updater under Windows.

Thanks a lot my friends...

zme-ul · May 5th, 2009, 07:24 PM

did U reset the BIOS to defaults?
also try to boot with minimal components

Funerall · May 5th, 2009, 07:30 PM

I didn't change any of settings before. But it seems I have to give a try.

Can it be because of my PSU?

SpectatorX · May 5th, 2009, 07:59 PM

It can be but i wouldn't be so sure about it.

zme-ul · May 5th, 2009, 09:34 PM

like spectator said it can be from the PSU but it's not an 100% sure thing

IModIntel · May 6th, 2009, 12:38 AM

I used to own this motherboard with an AMD Athlon X2 6000+ CPU installed on it. Then later, I decided to upgrade to the Phenom 2 940 BE, because even if it is not technically supported by the board, I saw in some forums that people were able to make this combo work properly. Howeven, when I installed, by computer did exactly the same thing as you. The reson for this is that this motherboard has a HyperTransport 1.0 link only and that can't cause problems with certain CPUs with the K10 architechture. After I changed my motherboard to the M3A78-CM, I didn't have any problems at all and everything works awesome. Remember that the 7750 CPU is a Kuma core which is K10 architechture also. You might also want to check if it is on ASUS' official CPU support site for your motherboard, it can always help.

zme-ul · May 6th, 2009, 10:44 AM

I did look on the asus site and it said it needed a BIOS update, the question now ... did funerall update the right version?

mkey · May 6th, 2009, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by zme-ul

I did look on the asus site and it said it needed a BIOS update, the question now ... did funerall update the right version?

Isn't a CMOS clearance mandatory prior to BIOS flash? Also, on first boot he should have loaded the fail safe defaults.

It's not like I do it every day, but every time I flashed a BIOS I did it like that. And it always worked.

Anyway, what are the options now? If the FDD is the primary boot device you can create a bootable floppy and flash from there.

zme-ul · May 6th, 2009, 11:51 AM

the flash utility has an option to reset defaults

mkey · May 6th, 2009, 12:03 PM

Yes, but can he boot from a device and load the utility?