HELP a poor little girl out!

[crantang]

I have a slight problem with my ECSK7S5A. I've been running SDR ram on it as long as I've had it (maybe 6 months), and I recently upgraded to DDR ram. Problem: DDR slot doesn't work! How was I supposed to know when I first got it? Anyway, I think I want to RMA it, but I don't have a friggin' receipt. I lost it. What do I do now? Can I use another person's invoice? This totally sucks, because I couldn't know if my DDR slot worked or not because I didn't have any ram. Now that I have DDR ram, I find out it doesn't work. Someone... anyone... please help me!! THanks

 

[Barrei]

Hello poor little girl , first make sure you only have one or the other in the mobo at any given time ,can you try DDR in someone elses mobo ? Ecs isn't a very good brand your better off to get a top tier mobo that has ddr ONLY and rebuild your system around that.

 

[crantang]

I'm sure the ram is good; I've tried it out on another person's mobo. Also, I took out the SDR and I'm (trying) to run only the DDR. I'm pretty sure it's the ram slot that's messed up.

Sighhhhhhh...

 

[patrickc]

one chip or two? if one, did you try it in each ddr slot, if two try each chip one at a time in each slot...if you ran both the sd and ddr at the same time, it may well have fried sumthin'...

p.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Clear the CMOS and try the DDR again. BTW, as to getting an RMA after 6 months on the K7S5A, I believe your SOOL Also, what brand DDR is it? What CPU?

 

[crantang]

Patrick, it was only one chip, and I did try it in both slots. I was not on enough crack to want to try both SDR and DDR at the same time.

I tried clearing the CMOS and that didn't work either. It's a Crucial PC2100 256. The chip is XP1700+. I thought the warranty was 1 year?

 

[Peter]

Note that an Athlon-XP pushes a lot more bandwidth onto the DIMM than your "other" system might do. You wouldn't be the first to migrate a DIMM from an old system onto an Athlon, only to find that it was good enough to run the old one but marginal enough to break the new one.

First thing to do however should be putting the SDRAM back in, updating the board's BIOS, reverting all settings to defaults. Then try the DDR again.

regards, Peter

 

[crantang]

Peter:

Can you help me out as to how to update BIOS? Also, what do you mean by '"other" system'? Please help... I hope I'm able to fix it.

Thanks,

Cathy

 

[kursplat]

go to linkage . you sound like you'll be able to do it no problem.

 

[Bozo Galora]

wudda you know. a geekette.

 

[Bozo Galora]

from manual

Model Chip Memory Manufacture
K4H2808388-TCBO 128 M Sams ung
HY5DU28822T-H 128 M Hyundai
46V8M8-75M 128 M Micon
46V16M8-75A 128 M Micon
46V16M8-75A 256 M Micon
LP13S6488EA 128 M EliteMT
1170A W942508AH-7 128 M Winbond
1170A W942508AH-7 256 M Winbond

also set dimm/pci clock enabled in bios

 

[crantang]

wudda you know. a geekette.

Uh oh... you're gonna make me cry... are you teasing me?

also set dimm/pci clock enabled in bios

I can't get into BIOS. There's no screen; the motherboard doesn't even beep once.

 

[Bozo Galora]

change setting with SDRam in.

 

[aircooled]

That Motherboard is very particular about the power supply also. Hopefully you have a least a 300watt AMD approved PS (and some of the 300?s are flakey with that board also). Most people recommend a 350w or higher. Mine runs well with a 300w.

Besides that, I would swap the RAM before I swap the motherboard. Odds are if it works fine with SDRAM that the board is OK.



EDIT: after re-reading I see that you have tried the DDR RAM is someone elses MoBo. See if that person will let you swap thier DDR RAM for a test in your mobo.

 

[crantang]

AirCooled:

Good idea... I haven't tried that yet. Also, I have a 350 Watt AMD-approved power supply from Codegen. Everything in my setup is exactly the same except instead of running SDR, I took it out and put in DDR. When the DDR is installed, the cpu doesn't even boot. No beep or anything. I'll try running different ram (again).