I have an Elitegroup K7S5A motherboard that crapped out on me two week ago. I would notice that if I left my computer on and went to bed or went out for the day, somtimes I would wake up or come back to a computer with a blank screen, and it was doing nothing. The only thing that I could do was reboot (had to press the reboot button on the computer, not ctrl-alt-del). So one morning I woke up and the computer has at it's blank state again, tried to reboot, nothing! The computer now does nothing. Everyhing powers up, but the compuer doesnt beep, and the monitor doesnt come on (out of sleep mode). Solution: Ordered new motherboard. Motherboard finally came in, I installed everything, and still, nothing happens. What could be the problem? I even tried powering my computer with a different power supply and everything!

Hi:I heard this mobo has a problem with a lost CMOS setting if you do not have a Good power Supply, on the other maybe your new mobo it came with a Clear CMOS jumper from the manufacturer anyhow for best help about this type of mobo please visit the following site Http://www.ocworkbench.com/ and look for your mobo up there Good luck

I'll assume that while your PC was working it would beep once when the BIOS had finished it's stuff of checking the RAM and HDs etc. And now it doesn't. If it doesn't beep once then something is wrong with a piece of the hardware or the BIOS that prevents it from even booting windows. Possibilities ( that I can think of ) are: MB is knackered ( well not that I guess ) Video card is dead RAM is dead BIOS could be corrupt ( not that as the MB is new ) Insufficient power. If you have a spare video card or can get/borrow one trying swapping them. Same with the RAM, if you have more than one RAM chip try each one on its own ( unless its a P4 of course ;) ) Try disconnecting the power for any EXTRA hard disks and the CD drives to see if the system powers up correctly without these, which would indicate a lack of power. This is unlikely but worth a go. Plus did you configure the new MB for the processor you are using? The chip speed and the MB have to agree ( in most cases ) for the system to power on correctly. There should be a block of little DIP switches near the CPU slot that are flipped up and down so make sure you have the correct configuration there. The possible configs will be either stamped on the MB somewhere and/or in the manual you got with it. Hope some any of this helps. Cheers. Mike.

Problem is, i plugged everything into the motherboard as soon as i got it, then pweored it up for the first time and NOTHING happened excepet fans running, etc.

Hi:make sure that your mobo not touching the case also take a look for the power pin connector and power lead connector maybe is set to 2 wire 3 pin so set it to 2 wire & 2 pin and see if your mobo will boot up peace.

no BIOS ? (6:06am EST Sun Feb 10 2002) well i figured it out... everything is ok good Ram, the hard drive is fine, everything.. the problem is My BIOS is either fried or i need to flash it.. I looked at the OC Workshop and it told me to download a .ROM file and rename it to amiboot.rom put it on a floppy.. and so on. So I did it and nothing happened. My CDROM, CDR and floppy drive are all just spinning for no reason. everything seems to be running enough to were i could just put in the BIOS .rom and it would flash it, but i guess not? i would really really appriciate some help. for all i know I might have to get another BIOS chip?... hopefully I can fix it without spending anymore money$$$.. Thanks - by Matt CDROM reported as ATAPI Incompatible (2:47am EST Sun Aug 11 2002) At (6:06am EST Sun Feb 10 2002) Matt reported CDROM and CDR just spinning. How was that solved? BIOS upgrade? If so what and how? - by by Derek CDROM reported as ATAPI Incompatible (2:59am EST Sun Aug 11 2002) My CDROM is Pacific Digital 2x24x2 ATAPI CD-RW Drive which worked OK until K7S5A installed. I have checked SETUP several times, and am getting OCCASIONAL recognition of the CDROM, but then only music CD's can be accessed. I noticed that IRQ11 has several things hung on it, but no conflicts are reported. Has anyone else had this sort of problem, and if so, how was it solved? - by Derek Can anybody on this forum help please?

Yeah, I regret buying this m/b aswell THIS MOTHERBOARD IS INCOMPATIBLE WITH MOST THINGS ESPECIALLY: ETHERNET CARDS VIDEO CARDS TV-TUNER CARDS Hope this helps.