Need help! Onda D1800 BTC. Can’t get BIOS to display!

[hineat61]

Ok, so I’m pretty good with Linux development programming so I wouldn’t think this would throw me for a loop. I unboxed  the motherboard and was pleasantly surprised that is had a upgrade. An onboard vga slot that the seller said it had not. Ok, I went ahead and inserted the appropriate Ddr3l ram and connected the 24 pin and four pin cpu connectors from the EVGA psu. I plugged my monitor into the vga and then turned the PSU on. The cpu I could hear powering up. But nothing is being displayed on the scree? Ism’t The BIOS preloaded? I tried to insert a graphi card after powering down and using the hdmi output to see if I could get videos. Power up, the GPU fans spins but still no graphicss to mod the BIOS. Is there something wrong with the board, or just me  . I tried all sorts of configurations going as far Ass creating a boot drive for win 10. How can I tell if the BIOS is intact, and if. Or how do I flash the bios on this model

[fapar]

Ok, so I’m pretty good with Linux development programming so I wouldn’t think this would throw me for a loop. I unboxed  the motherboard and was pleasantly surprised that is had a upgrade. An onboard vga slot that the seller said it had not. Ok, I went ahead and inserted the appropriate Ddr3l ram and connected the 24 pin and four pin cpu connectors from the EVGA psu. I plugged my monitor into the vga and then turned the PSU on. The cpu I could hear powering up. But nothing is being displayed on the scree? Ism’t The BIOS preloaded? I tried to insert a graphi card after powering down and using the hdmi output to see if I could get videos. Power up, the GPU fans spins but still no graphicss to mod the BIOS. Is there something wrong with the board, or just me  . I tried all sorts of configurations going as far Ass creating a boot drive for win 10. How can I tell if the BIOS is intact, and if. Or how do I flash the bios on this model

And what kind of memory is used? Recommended 1.35V
CMOS dumped?

[MarkAz]

So do you see anything when you give it power?  It sounds like you must, otherwise there's nothing you could do related to creating a boot drive.  If you're seeing the BIOS and can go into it, then the BIOS is fine - it would report a checksum failure if it gets corrupted.

If you are *NOT* seeing anything on the screen, when you power it up is it powering up and initializing your USB devices?  For instance, can you hit caps-lock on your keyboard and does the LED turn on and off on your keyboard?  If so, then it's probably something wrong with the monitor you're using, or the VGA port on the board.  The default CMOS setting on the D1800 is for it to use the internal graphics processor, so even if you plug something into the PCIe slot, it's not going to use it (default is for miners, not users).  The downside of this is that if there is something wrong with the graphics portion on the motherboard, you're SOL.

Flashing the BIOS is the same as any other device, format a FreeDOS floppy and run the batch file from the zip you download off of their site.

I use a ton of these boards, and they're a solid workhorse - never really had any problems with them yet...

[MagicSmoker]

... An onboard vga slot that the seller said it had not. Ok, I went ahead and inserted the appropriate Ddr3l ram and connected the 24 pin and four pin cpu connectors from the EVGA psu. I plugged my monitor into the vga and then turned the PSU on....

My understanding - though I just bought 2 of these boards and they are still on the slow boat from China, so no experience - is that the onboard video does not work despite the presence of a port. So, you will have to use one of the mining GPUs to run a monitor, or else use remote monitoring with Team Viewer or the like.

Again, this is just my understanding from what I've read, but I am obviously invested in knowing the right answer as I will be using this board in the future.

[philipma1957]

Ok, so I’m pretty good with Linux development programming so I wouldn’t think this would throw me for a loop. I unboxed  the motherboard and was pleasantly surprised that is had a upgrade. An onboard vga slot that the seller said it had not. Ok, I went ahead and inserted the appropriate Ddr3l ram and connected the 24 pin and four pin cpu connectors from the EVGA psu. I plugged my monitor into the vga and then turned the PSU on. The cpu I could hear powering up. But nothing is being displayed on the scree? Ism’t The BIOS preloaded? I tried to insert a graphi card after powering down and using the hdmi output to see if I could get videos. Power up, the GPU fans spins but still no graphicss to mod the BIOS. Is there something wrong with the board, or just me  . I tried all sorts of configurations going as far Ass creating a boot drive for win 10. How can I tell if the BIOS is intact, and if. Or how do I flash the bios on this model

did you plug power into the sata and molex slots?

they need power

[MarkAz]

My understanding - though I just bought 2 of these boards and they are still on the slow boat from China, so no experience - is that the onboard video does not work despite the presence of a port. So, you will have to use one of the mining GPUs to run a monitor, or else use remote monitoring with Team Viewer or the like.

Again, this is just my understanding from what I've read, but I am obviously invested in knowing the right answer as I will be using this board in the future.

Maybe you're getting some special OEM one, where they've remove it?  I have seen some where they removed the VGA connector, but obviously in that case he wouldn't have been able to plug in a monitor.    I use about 40 of these so far and the video out works fine on all of them.

And definitely follow what philipma1957 says, you need everything plugged in to make these boards happy.

[MingMining]

Same thing happened to me when I first get mine so you probably do not need to worry about it. By default, in bios setting, it should be set to ON after power resumes. If not, set it to ON. You should see the cpu fan running the first time you connect everything. If not, unplug the 24pin mb power cable and plug in again.

[MagicSmoker]

Maybe you're getting some special OEM one, where they've remove it?  I have seen some where they removed the VGA connector, but obviously in that case he wouldn't have been able to plug in a monitor.    I use about 40 of these so far and the video out works fine on all of them.

Dunno - the description for the D1800 I bought (6 GPU) says, "Video interface: no,should use the video card"; it seems there are several different versions of this D1800, though, so who knows what applies to which.

[stantpro]

Have you tried connecting to a LAN network and using remote desktop option to
seeing if you can view the system.It could be the VGA slot/port is bad so using
this option may fix it.More so, you can reset the board to clear cmos battery and bios settings.
Restart and check the outcome.

[hineat61]

Ok, so I’m pretty good with Linux development programming so I wouldn’t think this would throw me for a loop. I unboxed  the motherboard and was pleasantly surprised that is had a upgrade. An onboard vga slot that the seller said it had not. Ok, I went ahead and inserted the appropriate Ddr3l ram and connected the 24 pin and four pin cpu connectors from the EVGA psu. I plugged my monitor into the vga and then turned the PSU on. The cpu I could hear powering up. But nothing is being displayed on the scree? Ism’t The BIOS preloaded? I tried to insert a graphi card after powering down and using the hdmi output to see if I could get videos. Power up, the GPU fans spins but still no graphicss to mod the BIOS. Is there something wrong with the board, or just me  . I tried all sorts of configurations going as far Ass creating a boot drive for win 10. How can I tell if the BIOS is intact, and if. Or how do I flash the bios on this model

did you plug power into the sata and molex slots?

they need power

I plugged all the SATA ones in but not the molex. The molix says “power out” so I didn’t want to short circuited anything

[hineat61]

Ok, so I’m pretty good with Linux development programming so I wouldn’t think this would throw me for a loop. I unboxed  the motherboard and was pleasantly surprised that is had a upgrade. An onboard vga slot that the seller said it had not. Ok, I went ahead and inserted the appropriate Ddr3l ram and connected the 24 pin and four pin cpu connectors from the EVGA psu. I plugged my monitor into the vga and then turned the PSU on. The cpu I could hear powering up. But nothing is being displayed on the scree? Ism’t The BIOS preloaded? I tried to insert a graphi card after powering down and using the hdmi output to see if I could get videos. Power up, the GPU fans spins but still no graphicss to mod the BIOS. Is there something wrong with the board, or just me  . I tried all sorts of configurations going as far Ass creating a boot drive for win 10. How can I tell if the BIOS is intact, and if. Or how do I flash the bios on this model

And what kind of memory is used? Recommended 1.35V
CMOS dumped?
[/quote

I do have the correct memory

[philipma1957]

Ok, so I’m pretty good with Linux development programming so I wouldn’t think this would throw me for a loop. I unboxed  the motherboard and was pleasantly surprised that is had a upgrade. An onboard vga slot that the seller said it had not. Ok, I went ahead and inserted the appropriate Ddr3l ram and connected the 24 pin and four pin cpu connectors from the EVGA psu. I plugged my monitor into the vga and then turned the PSU on. The cpu I could hear powering up. But nothing is being displayed on the scree? Ism’t The BIOS preloaded? I tried to insert a graphi card after powering down and using the hdmi output to see if I could get videos. Power up, the GPU fans spins but still no graphicss to mod the BIOS. Is there something wrong with the board, or just me  . I tried all sorts of configurations going as far Ass creating a boot drive for win 10. How can I tell if the BIOS is intact, and if. Or how do I flash the bios on this model

did you plug power into the sata and molex slots?

they need power

I plugged all the SATA ones in but not the molex. The molix says “power out” so I didn’t want to short circuited anything

yeah that is wrong .  they need to be plugged in.

just make sure  they are in the right direction.


and this shows  the onda b250  with  3 sata and 3 molex plugged in

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg23791180#msg23791180

I am running them and I ordered 5 more.

Tell you what  when I get the next 5 on monday the 8th of Jan

I will show it to you.  or you could go to this thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.0


and look for it.

I killed my first 1800 board by putting the molex in upside down

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg22933260#msg22933260


and here is one down correctly

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg22938750#msg22938750


i had another one sent to me
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg22966464#msg22966464



clear photo

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg23791180#msg23791180

[achtung082]

Just an FYI: They released a bios that allows for 6 mining cards to run on this board, that does not error on no video. I have one of these with no video out and running 6 mining cards. It runs perfect with SMos, but only from an SSD. I have not found a way to get into the bios to setup boot from USB. The only thing I can think to do is boot from SSD and run an auto flash .bat to flash back to an older bios.
Bios version 202.rar (OBTBTC22.bin) will not show the bios at boot, but will now run 6 mining cards.

How do I know this, I flashed my board with OBTBTC22.bin.

[Xeon_Xeon]

Ok, so I’m pretty good with Linux development programming so I wouldn’t think this would throw me for a loop. I unboxed  the motherboard and was pleasantly surprised that is had a upgrade. An onboard vga slot that the seller said it had not. Ok, I went ahead and inserted the appropriate Ddr3l ram and connected the 24 pin and four pin cpu connectors from the EVGA psu. I plugged my monitor into the vga and then turned the PSU on. The cpu I could hear powering up. But nothing is being displayed on the scree? Ism’t The BIOS preloaded? I tried to insert a graphi card after powering down and using the hdmi output to see if I could get videos. Power up, the GPU fans spins but still no graphicss to mod the BIOS. Is there something wrong with the board, or just me  . I tried all sorts of configurations going as far Ass creating a boot drive for win 10. How can I tell if the BIOS is intact, and if. Or how do I flash the bios on this model

did you plug power into the sata and molex slots?

they need power

I plugged all the SATA ones in but not the molex. The molix says “power out” so I didn’t want to short circuited anything

yeah that is wrong .  they need to be plugged in.

just make sure  they are in the right direction.


and this shows  the onda b250  with  3 sata and 3 molex plugged in

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg23791180#msg23791180

I am running them and I ordered 5 more.

Tell you what  when I get the next 5 on monday the 8th of Jan

I will show it to you.  or you could go to this thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.0


and look for it.

I killed my first 1800 board by putting the molex in upside down

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg22933260#msg22933260


and here is one down correctly

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg22938750#msg22938750


i had another one sent to me
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg22966464#msg22966464



clear photo

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg23791180#msg23791180

I have one of these boards coming for my 6 P106 mining cards currently running in a Rosewill mining server case, so what is the correct way to plug the molex connectors? Are they power out? Power in?


EDIT: Never mind, I read through some of the links you posted and found the answer.

[hineat61]

Ok, so I’m pretty good with Linux development programming so I wouldn’t think this would throw me for a loop. I unboxed  the motherboard and was pleasantly surprised that is had a upgrade. An onboard vga slot that the seller said it had not. Ok, I went ahead and inserted the appropriate Ddr3l ram and connected the 24 pin and four pin cpu connectors from the EVGA psu. I plugged my monitor into the vga and then turned the PSU on. The cpu I could hear powering up. But nothing is being displayed on the scree? Ism’t The BIOS preloaded? I tried to insert a graphi card after powering down and using the hdmi output to see if I could get videos. Power up, the GPU fans spins but still no graphicss to mod the BIOS. Is there something wrong with the board, or just me  . I tried all sorts of configurations going as far Ass creating a boot drive for win 10. How can I tell if the BIOS is intact, and if. Or how do I flash the bios on this model

did you plug power into the sata and molex slots?

they need power

I plugged all the SATA ones in but not the molex. The molix says “power out” so I didn’t want to short circuited anything

yeah that is wrong .  they need to be plugged in.

just make sure  they are in the right direction.


and this shows  the onda b250  with  3 sata and 3 molex plugged in

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg23791180#msg23791180

I am running them and I ordered 5 more.

Tell you what  when I get the next 5 on monday the 8th of Jan

I will show it to you.  or you could go to this thread

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.0


and look for it.

I killed my first 1800 board by putting the molex in upside down

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg22933260#msg22933260


and here is one down correctly

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg22938750#msg22938750


i had another one sent to me
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg22966464#msg22966464



clear photo

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138550.msg23791180#msg23791180

Ok, so with everything plugged in it is still not working. I think it may have something to do with the 24 pin power. The USB ports aren’t providing power but the cpu fan is running, although fans for any gpu i plugg in run too. What is with the jumper pins next to the 24 pin power? Does this jumper need to be moved before operating board?

[hineat61]

So do you see anything when you give it power?  It sounds like you must, otherwise there's nothing you could do related to creating a boot drive.  If you're seeing the BIOS and can go into it, then the BIOS is fine - it would report a checksum failure if it gets corrupted.

If you are *NOT* seeing anything on the screen, when you power it up is it powering up and initializing your USB devices?  For instance, can you hit caps-lock on your keyboard and does the LED turn on and off on your keyboard?  If so, then it's probably something wrong with the monitor you're using, or the VGA port on the board.  The default CMOS setting on the D1800 is for it to use the internal graphics processor, so even if you plug something into the PCIe slot, it's not going to use it (default is for miners, not users).  The downside of this is that if there is something wrong with the graphics portion on the motherboard, you're SOL.

Flashing the BIOS is the same as any other device, format a FreeDOS floppy and run the batch file from the zip you download off of their site.

I use a ton of these boards, and they're a solid workhorse - never really had any problems with them yet...

Okay, so my usb devices do not initialize when I turn the power on. The cpu fan turns on and any gpu I put in a pci-e slot powers up, but the keyboard and mouse are unresponsive and unpowered. My monitor recognizes that the power has been turned on but reads "no signal". The monitor works fine with everything else. So, I am assuming that there is either something wrong with the board or the PSU. I am not sure what is powered by the 24 pin connector directly vs all the SATA/Molex power supplies.

[achtung082]

So do you see anything when you give it power?  It sounds like you must, otherwise there's nothing you could do related to creating a boot drive.  If you're seeing the BIOS and can go into it, then the BIOS is fine - it would report a checksum failure if it gets corrupted.

If you are *NOT* seeing anything on the screen, when you power it up is it powering up and initializing your USB devices?  For instance, can you hit caps-lock on your keyboard and does the LED turn on and off on your keyboard?  If so, then it's probably something wrong with the monitor you're using, or the VGA port on the board.  The default CMOS setting on the D1800 is for it to use the internal graphics processor, so even if you plug something into the PCIe slot, it's not going to use it (default is for miners, not users).  The downside of this is that if there is something wrong with the graphics portion on the motherboard, you're SOL.

Flashing the BIOS is the same as any other device, format a FreeDOS floppy and run the batch file from the zip you download off of their site.

I use a ton of these boards, and they're a solid workhorse - never really had any problems with them yet...

Okay, so my usb devices do not initialize when I turn the power on. The cpu fan turns on and any gpu I put in a pci-e slot powers up, but the keyboard and mouse are unresponsive and unpowered. My monitor recognizes that the power has been turned on but reads "no signal". The monitor works fine with everything else. So, I am assuming that there is either something wrong with the board or the PSU. I am not sure what is powered by the 24 pin connector directly vs all the SATA/Molex power supplies.

Nothing on my board works until the OS boots, and I mean windows 7 OS. When booting SMos I don't have console access, I can only manage Linux from SSH. I have only got an SSD to boot any OS.
My board behavior is very close to yours, it gives 1 beep and then boots from SATA (SSD OS drive).

If you don't get a beep, its not posting. This is most commonly a memory issue. The first memory module I used did this. I had to pull a module from my HP laptop which worked. Funny thing is both memory modules are the same spec, but different brands.

[DrG]

I don't have an Onda, but I assume it has a standard 12V input next to the CPU. Double check that connector and the PSU side if it's modular.

That's the number one thing that always gives me a black screen.

[philipma1957]

I just set one up today  I made a usb stick with smos

I connected 3 molex
3 sata
a 24 pin
a four pin for cpu
I am using a 16gb usb 3.0 stick
and for now 2 1080 ti's
 
pretty much flawless and you don't need to

access bios it was set to boot with a usb stick and fire the board up

flashing bios was not the way to go.

or maybe you got a dude.

this board is really easy to do a 3 card well spaced 1080 ti build

[achtung082]

I just set one up today  I made a usb stick with smos

I connected 3 molex
3 sata
a 24 pin
a four pin for cpu
I am using a 16gb usb 3.0 stick
and for now 2 1080 ti's
 
pretty much flawless and you don't need to

access bios it was set to boot with a usb stick and fire the board up

flashing bios was not the way to go.

or maybe you got a dude.

this board is really easy to do a 3 card well spaced 1080 ti build

What bios version do you have.