Pulling My Hair Out

[MrLars]

Originally posted by Gnslngr


my spare is doing the same thing as the original...almost....it just sits there at that blue screen w/ HP Invent on it.  It is a P4 1.0G

Any help would be appreciated:

I had a similar problem recently. What happened was that the floppy drive power plug was inverted. I believe that what happened is that the MB saw a polairity problem and barfed.

What I did to find the problem was to disconnect all my HD's, floppy and CD/DVD then reconnect one by one restarting each time. That's where I found that I had the FD power plug wrong.

Hope this helps.

[Roscoroo]

this may help for trouble shooting your ecs mb

http://b29.ezboard.com/fk7s5amotherboardforumfrm5.showMessage?topicID=1200.topic


do the jumper to reset the bios ... either hold dwn F-8 (to start in default mode) or hit the del key as it boots up to get to the bios screen .

[AKIron]

A reversed ribbon cable to the cdrom drive will cause that too. I assumed you tried it with nothing connected to the mainboard, if not, do what MrLars said.

[Gunslinger]

I posted this in the hardware forum as well:

here's exactly what happened: (I know I'm an idiot please dont laugh)

We just got DSL in our house and I got the network up and running through a new lynxus router.

When I was trying to network the two computers together for file sharing I totally corrupted my TCP/IP protocals (dont ask me how)

I tried all the windows fixes (I'm runing XP pro BTW) and even deleted the winsok's in the registry to reinstall them from my wife's computer. no luck there.

SO I said screw it and did a format and reinstall windows. (i was due for one anyways) While XP was installing it kept coming up with several errors and wouldnt boot. Turns out my CD was scratched or the CDrom is going bad.

Either way I hooked my hard drive up to my wifes computer and it installed perfectly booted just fine and everything.

When I returned the HD to my computer and booted it up it would power on. the HD would spin up but no system beep the monitor power light just sits there and blinks.

I unplug the monitor and I get the no signal banner(so i know that's working)
I swaped the P/S and still the same
I tried swapping my video card for an old PCI ATI that I have no joy
I unplugged everying on the board and just hooked up a keyboard vid card and monitor and the bios wouldnt go into setup
I tried the jumper settings posted on the ECS website and it didnt work.
I tried different ram sticks and configurations (IE 2 64s 2 128s)no joy
I hooked up my 31/2 A drive and it's light doesnt even come on.

with nothing connected but a vid card, monitor, ram, and keyboard......it doesnt beep or anything....keyboard lights dont even come on.  Ty for the advice though guys I really appreciate it


my prognosis.....BIOS screwed....processor bad....or....MB is bad

[Torque]

Barebones boot and no post bios beep most likey your mb is porked, you could flah bios from floppy to be sure.

You can't swap HDs in and out  between Via and Nividia based chipset MBs.