Motherboard problem

[searingsky]

I just recently got an ECS N2U400-A motherboard and I seem to be having a big problem with it. The first time I powered it up, no power seemed to be going to the board but near the CMOS battery area, some thin smoke and that nasty electrical smell came. On the next few tries, the board did receive power and all components were working it seemed... until I noticed that no matter what kind of video card I used (AGP or PCI), nothing would show on the monitor. The video cards are in perfect working condition and granted, it sounded like everything else was working (disk accessing, CPU processing, etc.) yet again, no video would ever show on the monitors I tried. My uncle suggested that perhaps the BIOS was ruined. Anyone have a clue what the problem could be?

 

[Grunt03]

welcome to the forum's.......

I am betting that the smoke that you saw wasn't a good thing. It could be a number of things. Does the MB require a XP power supply, secondly do you hav eone?
You can always go to the MB's web sight, search for RMA. You should be able to conduct an RMA on this mother board. I wouldn't tell them about the smoke though..........