Problem with my old Abit KT7A-Raid Motherboard

[RickRye]

I have an Abit KT7A-RAID board with 512MB SDRAM, AMD T'bird 1.333GHz, GeForce2, etc. I just moved this system out of one case and into another. I got it to power up once or twice. But no video. Then anytime after that it will either power up for 1 to 2 seconds and shut off, or not power up at all. Either way I hit the power button and it either powers up for 1 sec or doesn't do anything. Any suggestions? I dont' have anything else connected except a keyboard. Using a 300Watt power supply.


Thanks
-Rick

[james]

likely culprits: you loosened the heatsink and fried your processor. sucks to be you. the other one is that there is something shorting the board. go through and make sure that isn't happening (maybe take mobo out of the box and put it on a NONCONDUCTIVE surface (dry cardboard works well). you mention raid. do you have a lot of harddrives, that might be what is killing your system for lack of a strong enough power (maybe grab a friend's 400 watt?)

[Jason425]

ok, it's probably something shorting it, not too long ago I thought my mobo was doa, I call to get RMA and they say to take it out and put it on the mobo padding stuff and try it; sure enough, it works. I felt pretty stupid but at least it worked! Oh and if you fried your cpu, don't worry! That's what got me to upgrade from my 1.6 to my 2.4, killing the mobo! Change is good! 8)

[StinkyMojo]

Oh and if you fried your cpu, don't worry! That's what got me to upgrade from my 1.6 to my 2.4, killing the mobo! Change is good! 8)

Word to that- my barton 2500+ sitting there in its case totally kicks the crap outta my 2000+ thouroughbred that i fried :nod:

Oh yeah and switching fron an ECS pos to an Asus totally rules