K7S5A AGP Problems

[MarkG]

My ECS board wouldn't boot w/kyroII video card at first, tried pci banshee card and got system to boot. finished new system setup and win '98se install(Dec.26). later tried banshee agp card, it worked; tried kyroII it worked! Installed same and been happy till yesterday. Re-started system after power-out and... no-boot. Banshee agp no-boot.Saw mention of board problems related to power supply, mine is rated for P4.:frown:

 

[minendo]

Check in the bios to see if there is an option to boot AGP or PCI video. You want to boot from AGP obviously.

 

[MarkG]

My system won't get that far,it spins up the cd and later starts beeping but no display.

 

[Duvie]

Starts beeping??? What are beeps like??? Those are potential codes to tell you possible problem....

I think with all the swapping out the agp card may not be fully pushed in...It may have worked its way out enough to just be the issue?

 

[kylef]

I have a very similar problem with my k7s5a... It worked for a few weeks with an Elsa Geforce 256 AGP card. One day the display started "flickering" during boot, but once Windows graphics mode came up, everything was fine, so I didn't think anything of it. Then a few days later, the system wouldn't post.

If I swap in a PCI video card, the system boots just fine. I've tried 2 different AGP cards that were borrowed from working systems, and the ECS board just won't post with them. The drives spin up, then NOTHING. I don't get any beeps at all, and there's nothing on the display.

I wonder if there are just problems with AGP current supply on this board? I had a poorly designed board a while back (FIC PA-2013) that had all sorts of problems with its AGP design.

I'm running a revision 2 board, what about you?

 

[Dually]

Banshees won't work with it. It has to do with the fact that the Banshee AGP isn't using agp but pci.