I bought a compaq motherboard from ebay it is out of a D500 and is a replacement for my ecs l7s5m anyways the board arrived and it good quality and brillant and everything there is just one problem the where the cpu fan fits on the p4 there is no where to clip it into i tried fitting the one off my board but it has 4 screw holes and the board only has two how do i fit my cpu fan? I Got A Athlon 2200+ 512MB PC133 SDRAM 80Gb Hard Drive 64MB Geforce 3 TI500 Syntax SV266A 2MBPS Broadband Windows XP MCE 2005

Are you certain you have given the correct model number for your old ECS board? I cannot locate it in ECS archives. Apart from that, the compaq board you've bought is a proprietary part designed to work in a compaq box. It has no inbuilt PCI slots, these being on a riser card that plugs into the board. Do you have the riser card? It could also be the case that a compaq specific heatsink/fan unit will be required, and sometimes with compaq, their own style connector from powersupply. You may have researched these issues so forgive me if that is the situation. It is just that I would be very surprised if you can manage to get a compaq board to work in a generic system. I used to have a signature but it disappeared and I just couldn't be bothered writing another so please feel free to ingore this.

Richard is correct, Compaq and HP Dell and Gateway motherboards are not meant to work in anything but their own cases. There may be some these days that will, but I wouldn't ever try it if it meant buying and then trying. <===Lefty===