The current hardware for the system:
Intel Core2 Duo processor E6400
WD SATA Hard drive 250GB
Samsung DVDRW/CDRW SATA drive
Generic floppy drive
ECS P965T-A (Rev 1.0B) motherboard
Kingston 667 mhz DDR2 memory-2GB
ATI Radeon X1300 Pro PCIe video card
This is the second ECS motherboard (same type) that I have tried with this hardware.
The first would POST, set the frequency for the memory and then reboot immediately. It would do this continuously, except for rare occassions when it would get to the same point and freeze there.
I tried all standard troubleshooting techniques and was finally advised by ECS support to return it and get a new board.
The new board gives me no video at all. It seems to post and sometimes it reboots multiple times and other times just sits there running [frozen or ?].
I think the new board has an earlier version of the BIOS than the first board I had [manual is an earlier version than first one], although without any video I can’t say for sure.
I have tried the standard troubleshooting with this board, also with no results. I even bought a PCI video card(N-Vidia)and still got no video.
The only other solution I can see is to have the CMOS chip flashed with the latest BIOS and see if that solves the problem.
Checking posts on the NewEgg site, I see many people having no problem with this board and others unable to get it to work at all.
Any ideas as to what the problem could be??