Help?!?

[ResDog]

I was upgrading a friends system as a favor, and am having a real problem with it right now :/

I had a cheap ECS board (K7S5A) and a spare XP2000 sitting around, so I thought Id give them that as a basis for their upgrade (it was an old p3 650) and just reuse their RAM and peripherals for now, til they felt like putting some cash into it...

but once I assembled everything and powered it up, it seems to stall at an NVRAM check...I thought at first I had the IDE cable backward from the HDD, but when I change it, it passes the NVRAM check but shortly after asks for a boot floppy :/

I am also getting a message about CMOS size differences???

anyone throw out an idea here please?

btw, I have also checked this mobo with my RAM (Kingstone HyperX pc3500) and that doesnt seem to make a difference in anything...

thanx in advance,

Res...

 

[o1die]

It may not be reading the hardrive correctly. I would set it to master, not cable select, and check your hardrive jumpers again. Ecs boards can also be picky about the power supply. I'll bet your friend's pIII power supply isn't strong enough to run the xp2000. Newegg sometimes has some refurb power supplies cheap. If you get to the point where windows tries to load, you'll probably get a blue screen, meaning you need to do a fresh install (format).

 

[ResDog]

hrmm...powersupply you say?

I think the ps that is in the old box is a 250W generic...voltage *seemed* ok in the bios, but Im not too sure how accurate the ecs boards are with their sensors/readings...

I guess I will be bold and whip the ps out of my computer and see if that helps out any...

thanx,

Res

PS, how picky are these boards with RAM? for now I think hes going to continue running on his two old 128 sticks of infineon pc133...I am trying to do this on the cheap for him for now, and dont want to hand him a crazy bill when I get it working...

 

[ResDog]

ok...on my 400W antec ps...

nvram checks out fine...detects the primary/secondaries no problem...goes to the SiS screen with its details then does this:

RPL ROM ADR: 000A E6CA 7F46
RPL ROM IRQ: 10
RPL ROM PIO: D400
RPL ROM SLT: 3

RPL ROM FFC 5 Not Found

on the last line it counts to 5 before it says not found, and then thats it, game over...asks to insert a boot disk in A: and press a key...

anyone make sense of that?

 

[ResDog]

now I have retried my RAM, and it will go to the windows had an error screen where it allows me to select which way I would like to boot...so I try safe mode and it goes into a bunch of commands, and then stops...no more action...

so I try a spare HDD that I have kicking around here, to install 2k on it, I boot the comp up, boot from cd, and it now stalls at the "Windows is checking your computers hardware configurations" screen...

I have very little hair to begin with, and its getting to be less and less with each passing attempt at getting this thing running...

any ideas or suggestions? Im almost guessing at RAM but have never had an issue with my HyperX not working in any mobos...

thanx for any ideas/input...

 

[ResDog]

ttt for some help please!

 

[myocardia]

Was this a board that you know works, or is it a new board that you hadn't tried yet?

 

[Peter]

It's attempting to boot off LAN - and then goes to the floppy disk drive. This is all perfectly normal until you install an operating system onto the HDD, or insert a bootable CD into your CDROM drive.

Is your hard disk seen in BIOS yet?

Besides, maybe your thread would attract some more people if you thought of a headline a little more specific than just "Help!"?!