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Help with ECS K7S5A Pro

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sadalja

Junior Member
Hi:
I recd a new MB/CPU combo - Athlon XP1800 / ECS K7SAPro - I have connected everything up, and i get power on the fans, but no display. I have a brand new AGP2.0 compliant card (ATI Radeon 7000) that works fine with my old MB/CPU. I have a 256MB PC133 SDRAM module.

Have tried reseating the AGP card, RAM etc.

Right now the system only has the RAM and Video Card connected to it.

Please help!!!
 
Got the "CMOS clear" jumper on Normal? RAM really inserted all the way? Same for the AGP card? Processor mounted correctly, its fan connected to the CPU fan header?
 
Hi Peter:
The answer to all your questions is YES!!

In the last 1 hour, I have tried the foll:

1) Tried a brand new PCI VGA card

2) Tried a brand new Kingston 512MB DDR

Neither of thse work. I don't know if I am doing something really stupid. I have been over all the connections many times now :-(

Sunil
 
I'm thinking your processor is incorrectly installed or is bad. When you turn it on, does it make any sort of beep or a series of beeps? If not, mostly likely it's your cpu or motherboard that's bad and causing the system to never reach the POST diagnostic.

If you have a compatible spare MB or cpu laying around, use those to trouble shoot what's bad.
 
Could be a faulty motherboard as well,I had a similar problem with just the fans spinning and tried all the usual things like replacing cpu etc,turned out in my case to be a bad motherboard.You could try the board out of the case to see if you have a short somewhere.
 
First thing to do in this case is to try the mainboard in unmounted state. Take it out of the case, put it on a piece of cardboard, mount CPU, heatsink/fan, RAM and graphics card, attach power supply. Use a jumper plug to short the "power button" header briefly, and see if it fires up then. If yes, you got an assembly problem there - shorting something out, misaligning the board in the case so the graphics card won't fit into its slot properly, these things.
 
As jvang125 said, any beeps? Have you tried the monitor with a different PC? Any bent pins in it's VGA connector? VGA cable in good condition?
 
I had the exact same combo. I had to run it at 100/100 in order to use pc133. With pc2100 or pc2700, I had no problems running at full speed. Also, try a different power supply if you can. These boards can be picky.
 
Its most likely the mobo causing it .. I just got a new Abit mobo from frys to test out, and I can honestly say that the ECS Pro boards are a POS! Get a new board or RMA the current one you have...., but dont get the ECS!!!
 
Uh, don't throw it away yet... Like Asus, Abit and the rest, ECS has made some bad boards, but the Pro is a pretty good board. Do you have your RAM seated in the correct slot? What type of power supply are you using? Have you tested the CPU in a different machine? Are you positive all jumpers are set correctly? Need more data! Any beeps? What type of Ram?
 
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