PC Chips M916 POST Failure...Help Plz!

[XEusioN]

I bought a PC CHIPS M916 mobo from newegg.com thinking it was cheap...

For the longest time I turned it on, got to the POST, and the system halted, nothing happened. If I tried to enter setup, it would say "entering setup..." and do nothing.

I tried swapping memory, I went from SpecTek, to K-Byte, to Kingston...no differnces.


Now the problem I have is that the fans come on and everything, but no video output to the monitor at all, and once you power the system on, It won't power down via the power switch. And after it stops powering down, it wont power up until I clear the CMOS. I've even tried two differnet video cards...please help me out!!!


-James


P4 2.6c 800MHz FSB HT
PC Chips M916
512MB PC2700 DDR RAM
40 GB WD HDD
nVidia GF4 MX440

[Peter M]

With an 800 MHz CPU, it might very well be that you need to have PC3200 RAM.