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firstly on a previous case... seems ALL my PC problems are taken care of.. no more over heating and I think Halo is back into working order.. so cool ;)

NEW case...
I have a friends motherboard an ECS K7VZA now, something is up with this thing, I have all the jumpers back to original config, and when I short the power jumper it turns the PS fan on and there is 2 seconds of it being on, then it shuts off...
the mobo doesn't boot anything onto the screen.. it just goes on and off...

I have had similar to this happen before, but I cleared the CMOS and it worked after that...no such luck with this rig..
now I have the mobo sitting on an antistatic bag on a desk, and attatched to the PS which is also on the desk, I have tried 2 sticks of ram, one 128 megger and a 32 megger...

the CPU in it is a Duron 1.3 ghz...now here's the thing.. I looked at the specs for this thing and it says it can only do up to a Duron 800mhz? or 1 gig... I can't remember...

now could THAT be causing this? I thought that the board would just default the chip to whatever the speed it could handle... but maybe not...

any ideas??
what does a 1.3 duron run at for FSB?

thanks guys!
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ATX Connector..

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Make sure the ATX power connector is seater properly.. I've had that happen to me with certain PSUs that wouldn't seat right with the ATX connector for some reason.. eGo
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Post by Cheway »

Sounds like a PSU to me. Try a different one.
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ok I got it to stay on continuously... I used the jumpers to take it from 100 x2 FSB to 133x2 so now it stays on untill I short the power for 4 seconds... like normal

it just doesn't give a boot screen...
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damn it I wish I had a working crap vid card here to test with...
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it's prolly the psu
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