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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    Lesson learned. There are so many claimed hot-swappable USB/firewire devices, external drives, cameras, camcorders, etc. Do you always power off both the computer and the device first before connecting them? Guess life is no longer easy. Too bad I didn't think that Dazzle did it until I...
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    the USB ports are working fine with my flash drives, so the headers are connected correctly, I think. the ground pins of both ports are also connected. maybe the board design is inadequate? I guess a warning to others who own this board: don't hot plug any USB device, especially products of...
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    It was plugged into the front port. Yes it still works fine on another machine after this happened.
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    And I fried two :-( wondering if it's worthwhile to call them since both are over 30 days now. If it's so sensitive to front USB device, maybe I should go get a different board instead of having future headaches.
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    The first board has nothing, no fans. The second board has fans but no beep, no POST, black screen. It's hard to imaging you can't hot plug a USB flash drive, this dazzle is just a SD card reader, I hot plugged it on several other machines without any problem before.
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    Need help! My system powered off automatically after I plugged in a USB dazzle SD card reader and won't boot again. it's been stable for one month. I took the board out of the case, took out the cmos battery and reseated, reset the jumper, connected the power only, the power indicating light...
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    I found an extra mounting bracket underneath the board left from the previous board close to the floppy connector. I thought it doesn't hurt to give the board some extra support when I press in the connector or memory chips. It looks like it must have created a short by touching on the...
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    I've tried booting from a floppy, didn't work. It's not the driver. Yes I also tried a different floppy, same error. Both floppies worked fine in another machine. Update: furballi you'r the man. I finally decided to take the board out of the case, it booted to a win 98 floppy disk!
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    Sigh, the only thing I haven't done is taking the board out of the case. Can't believe I spend the whole Saturday morning for the stupid floppy Would hate to RMA the whole thing because of the floppy. I guess I can live without it. Who use the floppy anyway...
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    Reflashed when upgrading to 1.0f two days ago, before I tested the floppy. I should reflash again?
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    Thanks, moving the pin did the trick Would hate to disemble the whole thing to test for the floppy, you really think that might make a difference?
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    pin2,4 are for power LED, but the case power LED connection is a 2 pin connection but separated by a empty space. How to fit them? tried all of the above for the floppy, no luck
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    Same question ShOcKwAvE827, couldn't figure out where to hook up power LED Any one having trouble with floppy connection? I always get disc not formatted error. Tried the same cable and drive on other computers, works fine. Not like I need the floppy, but just in case. Any suggestion?
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    What about getting This for our peace of mind? for only 4 bucks.
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    AMD Sempron Processor 3100+ & ECS NFORCE3-A Motherboard for $80 at Outpost.com

    Haven't received yet. The 1G one from radioshack is 3.0-3-3-8 at 200 mhz per CPU-Z