Try clearing the CMOS. Use the jumper, or remove the battery.
I bought that mb a couple of years ago thinking it was nice and cheap and it
took both SDRAM or DDR. I'd be all set for newer RAM upgrade whenever I got
tired of the SDRAM. Then last year strange things started happening, such as
I'd have to reset the bios settings to get it to boot. It kept losing them.
So, I replaced the battery. That worked for a week. The battery was fine,
but for some unknown reason the mb would not hold them. Then I started
reading how other folks were having the same problem. Last spring I threw
the board into the trash can and replaced it with an MSI.

When I read the name K7S5A my hair stands on end.



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Jan Alter

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"lordy" wrote in message
.. .
Arg. a simple CPU fan change has cost me lots of money and time.
Anyway,

Pending a memory upgrade , my brothers PC has an

AMD XP 2400+ running at 100FSB,

It will now post but it wont boot into windows. OR into my trusty Knoppix
CD (I have CDROM on the boot list)

mobo is ECS K7S5A. Any ideas?


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Lordy