DEAD MB

[rlb245]

I have a K7VZA Rev 3.00 with aN Phoenix Bios #014456509 with a small white sticker on the bios with the motherboard #K7VZA and the number 212 below it. Sent the motherboard was part of a box of stuff I bought at a swapmeet I have no history on it
but with AMD 850, memory, video, and a floppy all I get is the fans startup and a blank screen so I am thinking it's not making through the bios. Could any one give me some insight on this problem. I'm just going to use this board as a training tool . So! if you can help me learn some about what happen before a mother board makes it through the bios or piont me in the right direction
I would be greatful.

[BipolarBill]

If you are testing it in the case, loosen the screws so the board "floats" and try again.

This is usually caused by either a bad capacitor or a grounded motherboard.

[gibsinep]

Also this happened to me once,

My board had a spot for a spacer right under the Video card, so Iput one their but after I got itall hooked up it would boot only black screen like you say. I then took out the spacer under the vide card and bam it worked. Must have been shorting somthing.

Alo re-seat your video card.Give it a god push and make sure it is in all the way.

If out of the case what surface has it been lain on?

[Rugor]

I'd try the classic "Minimum Post Configuration" and see what that gives you.

Lay the motherboard outside the case on a non-conductive surface. Install CPU/HSF, RAM, Video Card, and Keyboard. Connect a power supply, short the power switch connectors on the mobo briefly with a screwdriver and see if it posts. You do need to hook the video card up to a monitor too. It is important to perform this test with as many "known good components" as you can. Any part you can test on or pull from another system is the one you use. I have a 1mb Trident PCI card that's great just because I know it works.

This is really the minimum you need to get through the POST and into BIOS setup. In theory a board will POST without a keyboard but you can't get into BIOS.

[rlb245]

Well I have made a test bed for this little proj. Mybe I'm injoying this to much! "but anyway" took an old atx base plate and mounted it on a piece of 1/4 plywood. Added some of thows old style nylon mounts. Just cut off the tabs and the board slide's off and on with ease. Cut off the slot area on an old at case and lined it up and screwed it down onthe plywood seems to work well to hold the cards firmly

The mager update is I got some info from ECS the people how make this motherboard and the say the bios should be an Award Bios not a Phoniex so there's a big problem

[BipolarBill]

Oh man! Somebody just plugged in a BIOS chip that was laying around! That sux. I would go to www.badflash.com and get another - or maybe you should bail out before you waste too much time. :(

[rlb245]

The only reason I'm working on this thing anyway is to learn more about the bios funtions and mybe learn how to salvage some of these motherboads I get handed tome ya see I fix old systems and give the to kids how need them and make them availible to kids at the boys clubs of america so what I learn on this could trams late into some better machines for the kids. Beside I love learning this stuff. I only went to the eighth Grade in school and now how some of the less fortunet kids feel. All the need is a help and incureagment.

PS I no my spelling sucks (HO HUM)

[BipolarBill]

You go boy! :t

It is fun, ain't it?

[gibsinep]

rlb245
Just noticed you are from buffalo NY

I live pretty close to their about 5-6 hours away in Amsterdam :t

[BipolarBill]

Originally posted by gibsinep
rlb245
pretty close to their about 5-6 hours away in Amsterdam :t That's close? Even in Texas, that's a haul! YeeHAW!

I lived in Rome, NY for a 6 month period. I loved it. Great people - great place. Who knew that you could get great Italian food in upstate NY? :r

[gibsinep]

Sure thats close. I consider long going down to Florida. 5 hours is nothing.

rlb245- I sure hope you aren't a Yankees fan. As I am a huge RED SOX fan;)

[SPEEDO]

Red Sox are they still trying to play baseball...:confused:

SPEEDO

[BipolarBill]

RED SOX Hmmm...who are they? ;)

[gibsinep]

hey hey hey,

The Boston red Sox are tied for 1st place. So lets not know them.

Since 1988 they have been in 7 play-offs. So thats not to bad.

who do you guys like?

[BipolarBill]

As an impartial moderator, I refuse to take sides.






NY Yankees/Houston Astros!

[gibsinep]

NY Yankees/Houston Astros


LMAO.

Do you think I am blind trying to fool me by making the size small and sticking it in the bottom corner. lol

:p

[rlb245]

Well the only baseball teams I know is the ones my son's are on
and I have five of them only two play ball thow. one in Iraq right now and they other two are in collage. We do wilderness canoe river tripping for fun they keep me going

PS: it' a pleasent surprize to have this many people willing to help
Thank all of you for your help and encuragement

[gibsinep]

PS: it' a pleasent surprize to have this many people willing to help

I hope you stick around for a long long time so we can help you more often and you can help us.:)

[SPEEDO]

Let me see......Hmmmm Red Sox

Oh Yeah that's the team that does great all year and then near the end of the season they forget what they are doing.

Hey Nomar kick it toward the coffin corner....:D

SPEEDO

[gibsinep]

You wait all of you . The red sox are going to win it all. I feel it

[gibsinep]

LOL


Do you know how far of topic were are LOL

I dont think he minds

[BipolarBill]

He?

[gibsinep]

rlb245
Have any other computer problems?

[rlb245]

i just snaged a K&VZA rev 3.00 with a award bios on ebay. I'm going tom try that hot swap flash i was reading

I.m all solooking for a manual for two abit ZM6 motherboards I have

[gibsinep]

here is a link to the manual for the ZM6 motherboard. Hope thaa helps


http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/download/dlmanual.php?name=ZM6&file=zm6.pdf

[rlb245]

Looked all over the us site and found nothing
the link you gave doesn't take you right to it but I found it thanks for your help

[gibsinep]

hmm whenI click the link it brings me right to the page to pick what mirror to donwload from. Did you get your manual though?

[rlb245]

yes it does but when you click on one of the mirror most of them give me a failed url. But if you edit the mirror go to the sight you can find the link to the zm6 pdf that doesn't realy matter you helped get what I needed and thats all that counts thanks alot

Your link was fine It's the mirrors that are screwed up

[BipolarBill]

ftp://210.17.18.13/manual/k7vza20.zip

[rlb245]

Thanks Bill got that one already the board has a lot of potential juging from the manual thats if I canget this hot swap thing to work. I've been real lucky in these matters If brought back ten other MB that have had burnt parts in the power supply side of the board one had four poped caps and couple of burnt mosfets
It was a PCChip board works great not. Running in a net work at the local boys clube

[BipolarBill]

ftp://ftp.abit.com.tw/pub/download/manual/english/zm6.exe

For Abit anything, just type:

ftp.abit.com.tw

in your browser.

[rlb245]

thankyou