In , on 06/17/06 
   at 01:26 PM, Davey  said:

>Hi all,
>I have a 3 year old Gigabyte motherboard (GA-7VKML w/Athlon XP1700+) for
>my eCS  system and it has suddenly quit responding, as if it has no BIOS.
>I apply power  and it just sits there, no video, no beeps, nothing except
>the fans run and the  motherboard safety light IS lit. It seemed to leave
>the lights on for IDE  channel 1 (HD)& 2, drives 1 & 2 (CD) and just sits
>there. The monitor says "No  Input". NOTHING happened to
knock it out, no
>lightning, no weird power surges;  What happened was I turned it off
>after leaving it on for 3 months straight.  This happened last boot, no
>response for 10 minutes, then suddenly it started  working. But eCS kept
>crashing with a Ring 0 trap even while just idling. I  really thought my
>old 10G boot drive was failing. Now today, after 2 weeks  without turning
>it on, I've had power on for at least 30 minutes with a couple  cycles to
>test things, and still nothing. If the CMOS battery is dead wouldn't  it
>still beep an error? Or could that be the problem?

>I reset the CMOS, I disconnected all drives, I tried both onboard & AGP
>video, &  I tried with either or no sticks of RAM. I'm at a loss. How
>does one test a  motherboard with no response to speak of except it has
>power?

>I can't afford to buy another motherboard (I'm working for HP an average
>of 5  days a month, I'm 6 weeks behind on rent & 5 moths behind on my
>heat). Until  this is fixed I guess I'm stuck in Windows XP on my HP work
>laptop, or I spend a  week trying to get it working on my cheap ECS
>soldered-on Duron motherboard with  2 PCI slots and no AGP.

>This was all I needed! Any suggestions are gladly welcomed!

Davey,

I have a very similar problem here.   Mine is a 2yr old gigabyte
GA-8IG1000 series P4 TITAN MB with Intel inside (So I can't blame AMD).  I
just took it apart this morning.  And what do I find, but that the 12v
leads on the P2 (4pin) motherboard power connector are burnt to a crisp.

The leads on the MB are definitely fried a bit.  But the two 12v plastic
areas on the powersuppy connector are burnt and melted off.  The grnd
connectors are just fine.

Me thinks I need a new PS and MB at this point and perhaps a new CPU. 
Anyone replace P2 connectors on the MB?  If yes, I'd like to hear about
it.


-Mark Vollmer
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