Problem with ECS 848P-A7

[Guest]

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I just bought a ECS 848-A7 Mother board and a Pent 3Ghz processor.
Everything powers up correctly and I can get to the BIOS setup. The problem
I am having is that when I try to load a CD to load the OS, the computer
reboots. I can not get past it starting to read the CD. A screen flashes
up but then the computer reboots, clears the screen and I can not read what
it says.

I have tested all the components - CD drives, Floppy, Memory, HD and Video
card in another computer so I certain they work. I have double checked the
settings in the BIOS but can't see anything there that would cause this.

Does anyone have any suggestions? (Other than go get a different
Motherboard, which I am considering).

Configuration:

ECS 848P-A7 Rev 1.0 800Mhz FSB
Pent. 3Ghz Prescott
Muskin 512MB PC3200 enhanced (I even manually set the RAS CAS timing to
match the data sheet but no change in performance)
WD 160GB SATA 150Mhz
CD RW
Floppy
ATI 9200 128MB video card


BIOS Phoenix-Award V6.0
Set the BIOS to recognize the SATA drive (I am not using a ATA drive). The
machine does recognize the CD drive at the BIOS level.

 

[Brian]

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You didn't state what O/S you were loading but I had HE** trying to install
a new load of XP+SP2 onto this mobo. I had loaded my old Win98SE on the
board when I first got it and it worked fine while waiting to get a good
deal for XP off eBay. I picked up a full install XP+SP2 Pro edition off
Ebay about a 2 months ago and the install would die repeatedly about 1/4
into it. I sent an email to ECS tech support (now 2 months old and still no
response - grrrrrrrr). In the meantime, some Googling found that the XP+SP2
install is very sensitive to the microcode that your Prescott core CPU uses
(mine was the 3.2Ghz E). I found several newer versions of the boards BIOS
on the Taiwan site, the U.S. site wasn't keeping up apparently. I installed
the BIOS upgrade and viola, the whole CD load went w/o a hitch and the board
and XP has been working perfectly. Hope you have similar luck.

Brian


"Terry Locke" <terry.locke@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:kKGdneN0z9otajzfRVn-gg@giganews.com...
> I just bought a ECS 848-A7 Mother board and a Pent 3Ghz processor.
> Everything powers up correctly and I can get to the BIOS setup. The
problem
> I am having is that when I try to load a CD to load the OS, the computer
> reboots. I can not get past it starting to read the CD. A screen flashes
> up but then the computer reboots, clears the screen and I can not read
what
> it says.
>
> I have tested all the components - CD drives, Floppy, Memory, HD and Video
> card in another computer so I certain they work. I have double checked
the
> settings in the BIOS but can't see anything there that would cause this.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions? (Other than go get a different
> Motherboard, which I am considering).
>
> Configuration:
>
> ECS 848P-A7 Rev 1.0 800Mhz FSB
> Pent. 3Ghz Prescott
> Muskin 512MB PC3200 enhanced (I even manually set the RAS CAS timing to
> match the data sheet but no change in performance)
> WD 160GB SATA 150Mhz
> CD RW
> Floppy
> ATI 9200 128MB video card
>
>
> BIOS Phoenix-Award V6.0
> Set the BIOS to recognize the SATA drive (I am not using a ATA drive).
The
> machine does recognize the CD drive at the BIOS level.
>
>
>