Please Help! Athlon XP problem


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Please forget my other post because it was described wrong. I orginally had a Athlon 1.0Ghz T-Bird. Today my new Athlon Xp 1800+ arrived and when I put everything together and turned it on, the lights on the cdrom flashed, the fans powered up, the hard drive and the power LED stayed on, but the system did not beep. Also there was no signal to the monitor, as if it was in sleep mode. I reseated the video card, and the same happened. I cleared CMOS, and still the same thing. So I decided to put my old cpu back in to see if flashing the BIOS to the lastest version would make it work. I put the new cpu back in and the same still happened. I'm using a 300W power supply and will get a 400W in a couple of days. Whenever I put my old cpu in everything works perfectly. Could the problem be with the power supply, meaning do I have enough power to use the Athlon XP 1800 or is it just my cpu. So now I had to put my old cpu in so I could come to see if I could get some help

300W

+3.3V = 20A

+5V = 30A

+12V = 10A

+5VSB = 2A

-5V = 0.5A

-12V = 0.8A

ECS K7S5A

AMD Athlon 1.0Ghz T-bird

256MB PC2100

80GB IBM 7200rpm, 20GB 5400rpm

Lite-on 24x10x40

Lite-on dvd 16x

Video Magic 64mb Video card

300W power supply

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Shrug, ECS is a pretty ****ty motherboard manufacturer. That in itself is a problem. Anyways; it's not impossible that an ESD fried your Athlon XP. *shrug* try it in another machine.

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I wouldn't be surprised to find out that your motherboard doesn't support athlon XP, first of all are you sure your motherboard supports running a CPU on a 266Mhz bus, and secondly are you sure it actually supports Athlon XP because im betting it doesn't :(

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There are plenty of systems comercially available sporting the K7S5A and XP processors so I wouldn't have thought that's the problem and yes the fact that the MOBO has PC2100 DDR sort of implies it supports the 266Mhz bus doesn't it? I seem to remember that pressing page up while starting up on this board will correct any incorrect CPU/memory settings. If this doesn't work I'd guess you've a fried CPU.

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The ECS K7S5A does support Athlon XP's

Have a read of this

Make sure that any jumper settings are correctly set.

Make sure cpu, ram, and cards are seated correctly.

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