ahhhh no signal to monitor on my new ecs board from fry's?!?

[PoPPeR]

just got back from fry's with a new ECS K7S5A board + amd xp2000+ and 512 ddr pc2100 ram for 200$ total. I installed the processor and ram, but for some reason i can't get any signal at all to my monitor. I know its not my monitor because i tried two monitors that i have. I know its not the graphics card because i tried a very old agp tnt2, the gforce 2 pro that i'm trying to use, and a ati radeon 7000 agp, and none of them worked. What's the absolute bare minimum that i need to have plugged in to test where the problem lies? Fry's is 1 1/2 hours away and i really don't want to go back there, so i want to make sure it's definitely the motherboard before i drive back and exchange. Thanks for any help

 

[teqwiz]

You should probable post this in General Hardware. In the mean time.. Reseat the vid card til it clicks twice going in.

 

[PoPPeR]

sorry i was just looking for any quick ideas I've tried reseating all 3 graphics cards over and over again, i just dont know what the problem is. The processor starts up, even on one of my graphics cards the "4x AGP" and "power" lights come on, the error light stays off, so I know the graphics card is being powered. Is the AGP slot broken, or would that cause the card not to even power up at all.

 

[dannybin1742]

its your powersupply, you need at least 350W (it took mine 400W to boot it)- i had the same problem

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
sorry i was just looking for any quick ideas I've tried reseating all 3 graphics cards over and over again, i just dont know what the problem is. The processor starts up, even on one of my graphics cards the "4x AGP" and "power" lights come on, the error light stays off, so I know the graphics card is being powered. Is the AGP slot broken, or would that cause the card not to even power up at all.

all 3 graphic cards?

perhaps this is the problem?

 

[HappyPuppy]

Pop out the memory and reseat it several times. That mobo has extremely tight slots.

 

[PoPPeR]

i was thinking that too When I booted with everything plugged in, one time the computer just died. I looked at my friend and was like wtf, but i pressed the button again and ti turned on again with no problems. My current power supply is 300w. Dammit, how much are 350w power supplies? Can I pick one up from best buy or compusa tomorrow? I'd rather not drive all the way down to fry's if I can avoid it.

After reading some of the posts in the hot deals section about boards with the plagued "this board may have been returned" i got really scared. I hope the new Power system does it. Now i'm not sure if 250$ was worth it for a new power system, 512 ddr ram, mb, and cpu

 

[thomsbrain]

i know what your problem is. you bought it at fry's.

honestly, you can't trust ANYTHING you buy from them to be new.

 

[0roo0roo]

well you need a 300+ watt power supply with a good 12v rail 15a+ for the monster athlon

power supply guide from firing squad.


i too will need to get a new power supply tommrow. old cpus used 5v rail which is fine on old ps. grumble.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: dannybin1742
its your powersupply, you need at least 350W (it took mine 400W to boot it)- i had the same problem

Hahaha, not even close. You can run this all day with a junker 300W PSU.

For your question about the minimum needed to test something: Power supply (obviously), Motherboard, CPU, RAM and Video card are all that's necessary.

Now, are you not getting any signal to the video card, or is the machine just not turning on at all? Are the fans on the CPU and in the Power supply spinning up? Because if not, there is a well documented problem with the K7S5A and other SIS 735 (I think that's the right chipset) where it sometimes refuses to POST; it can be a picky motherboard.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: Yield

Originally posted by: PoPPeR
sorry i was just looking for any quick ideas I've tried reseating all 3 graphics cards over and over again, i just dont know what the problem is. The processor starts up, even on one of my graphics cards the "4x AGP" and "power" lights come on, the error light stays off, so I know the graphics card is being powered. Is the AGP slot broken, or would that cause the card not to even power up at all.

all 3 graphic cards?

perhaps this is the problem?

LOL he doesn't have 3 in there at once! Read his post - all the cards are AGP, so unless he has 3 AGP ports, he's trying them all separately!

 

[stevewm]

Check the Clear CMOS jumper. Some of these boards ship with this jumper set to the Clear position. In the clear position the board will not boot.

 

[WeeWolf]

ECS techs claimed with the K7S5A that you will need a minimum of 300w PS more importantly they claimed you will need it to deliver 20a @3.3v which is more rare than you would think. I had the same problem went and bought a 400w from a local place the damn thing only delivered 15a @ 3.3v while the one he showed me in the store delivered 22a @ 3.3v. I got nabbed by the bait and switch : ) I nearly threw it at him the next day.
G'luck
Jim

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: WeeWolf
ECS techs claimed with the K7S5A that you will need a minimum of 300w PS more importantly they claimed you will need it to deliver 20a @3.3v which is more rare than you would think. I had the same problem went and bought a 400w from a local place the damn thing only delivered 15a @ 3.3v while the one he showed me in the store delivered 22a @ 3.3v. I got nabbed by the bait and switch : ) I nearly threw it at him the next day.
G'luck
Jim

ECS only does that to cover themselves for most problems. 20A is excessive, you could probably get by with 15. It does make sense to play it safe and go for one with 20, though.

 

[PoPPeR]

well. No one got the answer right =/ I drove an hour and a half to fry's today, first thing the person does is check the processor, which of course doesn't work and was the problem the whole time I didn't even think of the processor, seeing how i just opened it, snapped it on, put on the heatsink with no second thought. Guess nothing can beat a bad processor though. Got my rig up again however, thank you for all your advice. My thumb hurts now from putting in the damn heatsink 3 times today

 

[0roo0roo]

ugh u dead processor, me possibly bad m/b. it keeps installing windows up to 27% and freezing. or fully installs then randomly freezes. its no longer a question of power since i upgraded to 350watts antec and it still does it !!!! arghh!!!

i hope it isn't the cpu

 

[teqwiz]

Ground yourself when you install it bro. Touch the case before you stick it in the slot. You probably already know that though.