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[RedPCSystems]

I'll try and make this brief. Any ideas at all will be greatly appreciated.

I've decided the old rig needs some upgrading so I ordered a Radeon 9700 Pro and an ECS KT600-A motherboard.

Prior to that I had an Albatron nForce 2 Ultra 400 MicroATX board w/integrated video. I'm using DDR333 (2 stix) and an 80GB SE WD hard drive.

The Radeon arrived on Thursday and all went well, playing Far Cry for a good 4 hours. The motherboard arrived on Friday and since then nothing has posted, I can't even get an error beep.

Here's the hardware I currently have:

2x Albatron nForce 2 Ultra 400 mobos, one micro, one full size
-both were working recently, the micro one just the night before
1x ECS KT600-A VIA MOBO
-never got it to post so far
3x 2500+ Barton Processors
-one brand new, one known to be working, one possible dead
2x 256MB DDR333 from Kingmax
2x 256MB DDR400 from Kingston
-all working at some point
1x Antec TruePower 380watt
-working Thursday
1x Generic 350watt
-working a week ago
All fans are stock AMD

The situation is as follows:
Nothing works

NONE of the motherboards post with any combination of cpu's, ram and psu's. I've tried using the ram one stick at a time, different power switches, clearing the cmos, etc. Can't even get the fans to spin on the Albatrons. The fans on the ECS spin. No post on any board. Tried using Radeon and GeForce graphics cards. The weird thing is that the very board I was using Thursday won't post on Friday with the same processor I had before.

If I take out the CPU and leave all the components in, all motherboards spin. On the Albatron's, the voice genie says something along the lines of No Processor Detected, which to me indicates those motherboards are working.

Nothing like this has ever happened to me before, and I'm really completely out of ideas.

[RedPCSystems]

My friend came over with two more working Athlon XP's and two working power supplies, no luck. I'm guessing it is probably the motherboards, but all 3???

[ChaosHosting]

Post this over on the anandtech boards, great group of guys, hardware gurus. http://forums.anandtech.com/

-Greg

[Rob83]

Are you testing this with the motherboard outside of the case?

[RedPCSystems]

i started with all three motherboards in cases, then i tried them all without cases as well

i thought maybe a loose wire or something was causing a short

[Charlottezweb]

I believe I've experienced something similar once when the mobo wasn't properly grounded...

-Jason

[Rob83]

Originally posted by RedPCSystems
i started with all three motherboards in cases, then i tried them all without cases as well

i thought maybe a loose wire or something was causing a short

Dont take this the wrong way, but you set the jumper from clear to normal on the new motherboards right?

[RedPCSystems]

hehe, yea, i reset the CMOS on each board at least 3 times and made sure the jumpers were in the proper positions. like i said, everything stops working when the cpu is inserted