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Recently my motherboard decided it wanted to fry itself and I had to order a new one. I settled on the motherboard in the post name from NewEgg. The first one I ordered would not post at all, so I had to send that back for an RMA. The second one I got seemed to work fine, everything posted alright so I started hooking up the other components. I hooked my ata-100 hard drive up to the primary IDE channel and my ata cd burner to the secondary channel, both on cable select. When I then tried to boot the system it recognized the hard drive but not the burner. I swapped them around and the situation reversed, recognized the burner but not the hard drive. This leads me to believe that the second channel is dead. I tried setting up hard drive and cd burner as a master and slave unit on the primary IDE channel and that worked, sorta. The hard drive would only run as an ata-33 drive, and only as the slave. I swapped around the jumpers for designating as master and slave in several combinations but no help. I decided to go ahead and install Windows with that setup anyway. Everything worked fine, OS installed properly and I got into Windows where I encountered the second problem. The OS and come to think of it, the BIOS did not find my onboard network adapter. I installed the nForce driver pack from their webpage and it still did nopt recognize it. When I plug a network cable from my modem to the port it lights up but the computer does not seem to see it. These are the only two problems I seem to have with the motherboard, but before I send it out for an RMA I'd like to find out if it could be something else. I thought it could have been the power supply not cutting it anymore but I am not sure. I'll list my system components below and hopefully someone can give me some insight.

(WFWOS) = Worked fine with old system.

Athlon XP 3200 Barton (New)
EP-8RDA3I Revision 3.x
2x256 PC 3200 Kingston RAM (WFWOS)
ATI Radeon PRO 9800 (WFWOS)
WDC Special Edition 80gb 8mb buffer ATA-100 (WFWOS)
TDK CD-RW 48x (WFWOS)
330 watt power supply

A link to where I bought the motherboard is right below.
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?DEPA=0&description=13-123-208&ATT=Motherboards+AMD&CMP=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r
 
I would never run a master hard drive and a burner on the same channel. I'm not saying it's your problems here, but it can cause problems. Also, what's the amp rating on the 12v rail of the power supply? :smile:


Abit IS7 - 2.8C @ 3.4 - Mushkin PC4000 (2 X 512) - Sapphire 9800Pro - TT 420 watt Pure Power
Samsung 120gb ATA-100 - Maxtor 40gb ATA - 100
Sony DRU-510A - THAT'S MORE LIKE IT, MSI!
 
See if you can swap a power supply with someone. You're asking a lot of 16a@12v when you have to drive an XP3200 and a 9800Pro plus all drives and motherboard goodies.

Abit IS7 - 2.8C @ 3.4 - Mushkin PC4000 (2 X 512) - Sapphire 9800Pro - TT 420 watt Pure Power
Samsung 120gb ATA-100 - Maxtor 40gb ATA - 100
Sony DRU-510A - THAT'S MORE LIKE IT, MSI!
 
Some folks are running those Aspires on the MSI Forum with good results. A Fortron Source 400 would do fine too. Of course, when you take it out of the box you're going to go, "Where's the weight?" It's going to feel light due to the use of plastic and aluminum. It's basically made for a Lan-Party case to drag around. More than enough gas for your needs. This little TT I'm running has roughly twice the weight of my old power supply. :smile:


Abit IS7 - 2.8C @ 3.4 - Mushkin PC4000 (2 X 512) - Sapphire 9800Pro - TT 420 watt Pure Power
Samsung 120gb ATA-100 - Maxtor 40gb ATA - 100
Sony DRU-510A - THAT'S MORE LIKE IT, MSI!
 
Thanks for the advice, I ordered myself that Aspire and hopefully that will fix my problem, if not I will be back here to bug people or just RMA my motherboard again.
 
Weirdest thing. I decided to totally dismantle my computer just to kind of clean it up and when I put it back together everything worked fine. There was nothing under the motherboard shorting it or anything so the only thing I can think of I did different was go from one screw holding the motherboard down to eight. Anyone experience this before, and does the amount of screws used to hold down the mobo have any bearing on grounding?
 
You win a prize! The answer is, "obviously!". Glad you're up and running again! :smile:


Abit IS7 - 2.8C @ 3.4 - Mushkin PC4000 (2 X 512) - Sapphire 9800Pro - TT 420 watt Pure Power
Samsung 120gb ATA-100 - Maxtor 40gb ATA - 100
Sony DRU-510A - THAT'S MORE LIKE IT, MSI!
 
I've been building systems for quite a while now, figures the one time I get lazy and only put in one screw I get burned 😛
 
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