ECS KM400-M, good caps yet both are dead

[SuperDuty]

Hi,

I've got two ECS KM-400M motherboards. One I got in a lot of motherboards, the other one comes from an Acer Aspire T120 I found in the dumb last week.
Neither of them work, yet most of their caps are Panasonic.

The one from the Acer will turn on, fan spins for a couple seconds and there's a weird low pitched beep.

The other one will turn on, fan spins for a couple seconds and then stops.


I've tried them with different RAM sticks, Palomino and Thoroughbred CPUs (the one from the Acer came with a XP 3000+ yay ! ). I've even tried them without their BIOS chips but it's still the same.

Any ideas ?

[bigbeark]

Check the BIOS battery, if less than 3 volts, replace it.

You should get a PCI BIOS code card. It will give you 2-character codes you can google.