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Shvarz   10-26-2001 at 03:45:28 PM

Hello there!

I recently upgraded to Athlon 1.4GHz with ECS K7S5A mobo and DDR RAM. Installation went through pretty smoothly, I was just waiting for my new modem to come in (I had ISA before, so I had to switch). The system was booting fine at this point.

The modem came in, but it did not work because of an IRQ conflict. So I decided to move it to a different PCI slot. After I did, the system would not even post. So I took it out, but it did not help. So I had to go to the bare minimum trying to figure out what is going on.

I left just memory and video in, the system would not post. So i fiddled with memory and it did post. I guess I touched or moved something while I was moving the modem (i did not break anything, I was pretty carefull and gentle).

So, after some playing around here is what i got: the second slot for memory did not work at all. The first slot worked from time to time, being very sensitive to me touching the memory module. It did not matter which of the two memory sticks I tried to put in it. So, does it mean that some contact is loose in the memory slots? Or something else might be causing this? How would I go about figuring it out?

Please help as soon as possible, while I still can return my motherboard to the place I got it from.

Thanks.

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Anonymous   10-26-2001 at 04:00:32 PM
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Hmm.

I find it difficult to think that you could have burnt out your DIMM slots by moving a modem unless you were using a meat cleaver to get the card out.

If you have another machine you can get to, I'd test out your RAM before giving back your baord.

good luck

James

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Shvarz   10-26-2001 at 05:49:20 PM
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No, I don't think I burned them. I think they were faulty in the first place, I just got lucky during my initial install. Maybe there is a loose connection somewhere and by moving things around I caused it to come apart. Does it sound likely?

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phsstpok   10-26-2001 at 08:01:59 PM
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Try removing the motherboard and look for a stray standoff that may be shorting something.

We are all beta testers!

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Shvarz   10-29-2001 at 03:54:10 PM
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Man!!!!

Thank you so much for this! This is exactly what the problem was, I looked under the board and found a stand right under my memory sockets. When I took it out, everytning went back to normal!

Thank you for your ingenious advice!

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phsstpok   10-29-2001 at 10:27:51 PM
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You're welcome.

9 times out of 10 if you have an intermittent connection that is sensitive to touch, that's what the problem is.

I kind of miss the old plastic/nylon standoffs. No chance of those shorting anything.

<b>We are all beta testers!</b>

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