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Modem causes no POST

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teknodude

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I'm rebuilding my friend's computer. Everything else is setup fine on the mobo (ECS K7S5A), but whenever I put the modem on the mobo it the computer won't POST, I only get lights, fans and drives spin up.

I've tried switching the PCI cards around and putting the modem in different slots (never in the PCI slot next to the AGP slot though obviously, due to possible resource sharing conflicts). What can I do now, any ideas folks?

teknodude
 
I Had the exact same problem with the same ECS board and a Supra PCI 56K modem. Do you know what brand the modem is? No matter what I did the board would not post. Both were brand new at the time. The Board worked fine with 3 other PCI Modems on it and the modem would work in any other PC I tried it in including another Athlon system as well as PIII and PII systems. There is something with that supra modem and the ECS that conflict. When I was searching the net at the time for a solution several other people were having the exact same problem I was with that ECS board and a Supra 56k PCI modem. No one else was able to figure out the problem either.


UPDATE: just read on another fourm with a dood with the same problem and ECS told him to flash the bios to the newest version and it then posted. You might give that a try. At the time I had the problem the ECS board was so new there was not a bios update for it!

 
Ah rite...I might consider flashing the BIOS as a last resort, as this is someone else's computer, and therefore they have paid for the kit 🙂

The modem is an Atech (a what? yeah, that's what I thought!). The modem wasn't new, but the mobo was. Ha ha...and look at a page I just turned up about Atech modems: http://www.goldrush.com/~atech/modems.htm!

What brand are the modems that you've found work OK with the K7S5A?

I'll need to consider this a little more and scout around a bit more...thanks for your help Dennis, much appreciated 😀

teknodude
 
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