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ECS K7S5A problem

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Slick5150

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I have just put together a new system. Here are the specs first of all:

ECS K7S5A motherboard
AMD Athlon XP 1700
384 MB DDR RAM (1 128MB, 1 256MB)
60GB Western Digital ATA-100 7200rpm HD
Lite-On 24x CD-RW
ATI Radeon LE video card
Soundblaster Audigy

I got everything assembled, turned it on, and things weren't working right. When I power it up, I get 2 quick beeps, followed by 8 more beeps, then a pause, then 2 more quick beeps, and then 1 last beep. I am also not getting any video signal out of the Radeon so I can't see if/what is going on. The ECS manual doesn't seem to explain what the beeps mean, so I can't interpret them. Everything seems to be installed properly, so I am stumped right now. Anybody have any ideas as to what might be wrong?

Thanks!
 
carefully take out and reseat your video card and memory. you will need to use more pressure than you think to get them properly seated in their sockets. then try booting with just the mem, proc/hsf, video card. if it posts, then add components.
good luck
 
Yeah, foofoo is right, The beeps are telling you it's the vid card. sometimes you have to reseat the vid card and ram 6-8 times to break in the slots on the K7S5A.
 
I have the same board, with a soundblaster audigy platinum and a radeon all-in-wonder VC and I have yet to get the soundcard working with that board. I've heard rumors that certain boards including the K7S5A's won't run the SC's? Try taking the card out and booting.
 
Thanks Foofoo, that was the problem. I took out the video card and reseated it a few times, and noticed the last time that in went in further than before. So, I turned it back on, and the computer booted up fine.

Russdog: My soundcard wasn't being recognized at first either, but then I repeated the above step with it and it works now. The ECS board's slots must really need to be broken in. Also, make sure you've disabled the on board sound in the BIOS.
 
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