Help with ECS K7S5A Pro

[sadalja]

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!!!

 

[Peter]

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?

 

[sadalja]

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

 

[jvang125]

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.

 

[Mem]

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.

 

[Peter]

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.

 

[DieHardware]

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?

 

[o1die]

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.

 

[kitkit201]

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!!!

 

[buckmasterson]

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?