Problems With ACS Mobo

**abfhand** · April 10th, 2007, 05:20 PM

I purchased this barebone deal from Tigerdirect. It's an ECS pm800-m2 mobo and I put an intel cpu celeron D - 3.06 in. I have changed every setting in the bios I know of but keep getting the cpu has changed message on bootup...
I used the ecs manual and set the bios exactly as they say. Problem is when I hit f-10 to save and exit. I hit Y and it just hangs there. I hit Enter/Exc and I must reboot to get out of there.
Has anyone found the remedy to this one? Appreciate any help. Thanks.. Will

**abfhand** · April 10th, 2007, 06:07 PM

Hello and thanks for the reply. I'm using Ultra DDR [333mhz) 512.. (1) stick.

**abfhand** · April 11th, 2007, 02:28 AM

Ok. I will try that when I get back today. I have 2 sticks of Crucial xms which I was saving.

I had used Acronis to clone my old harddrive and put a bigger harddrive in. I placed the old harddrive back in and Now when I bootup it says something like '' boot cd failed'' ''Put boot disk in and hit Enter''....I don't know how to make a boot cd without being able to get in.

Thanks.

**Ferrit** · April 11th, 2007, 09:27 AM

Sounds like you need to reset it to boot to the main harddrive

**abfhand** · April 11th, 2007, 02:12 PM

Well, the Corsair ramm that I have doesn't line up with the ram slots on this board. Not sure of the pin counts

Corsair CM2-512 -5400C4 675 MHz
Corsair CM2X512A - 6400 800 MHz

Just did a corsair check on this mobo and this is what is compatible with this board.

Part Number Type Size Latency Sel
VS1GB333 DDR-333 (PC-2700) 1GB 2.5-3-3-7-2T
VS1GB400C3 DDR-400 (PC-3200) 1GB 3-3-3-8-2T
VS1GBKIT333 DDR-333 (PC-2700) 2GB Kit (2 x 1GB) 2.5-3-3-7-2T
VS1GBKIT400 DDR-400 (PC-3200C25) 1GB Kit (2 x 512MB) 2.5-3-3-8-2T
VS1GBKIT400C3 DDR-400 (PC-3200) 1GB Kit (2 x 512MB) 3-3-3-8-2T
VS256MB266 DDR-266 (PC-2100) 256MB 2.5-3-3-3-2T
VS256MB333 DDR-333 (PC-2700) 256MB 2.5-3-3-7-2T
VS256MB400 DDR-400 (PC-3200C25) 256MB 2.5-3-3-8-2T
VS256MB400C3 DDR-400 (PC-3200) 256MB 3-3-3-8-2T
VS2GBKIT400C3 DDR-400 (PC-3200) 2GB Kit (2 x 1GB) 3-3-3-8-2T
VS512MB266 DDR-266 (PC-2100) 512MB 2.5-3-3-3-2T
VS512MB333 DDR-333 (PC-2700) 512MB 2.5-3-3-7-2T
VS512MB400 DDR-400 (PC-3200C25) 512MB 2.5-3-3-8-2T
VS512MB400C3 DDR-400 (PC-3200) 512MB 3-3-3-8-2T
VS512MBKIT400 DDR-400 (PC-3200C25) 512MB Kit (2 x 256MB) 2.5-3-3-8-2T
VS512MBKIT400C3 DDR-400 (PC-3200) 512MB Kit (2 x 256MB) 3-3-3-8-2T

**Ferrit** · April 11th, 2007, 04:54 PM

Thats because your motherboa4rd uses DDR
and the ram from corsair appears to be DDR2

**abfhand** · April 11th, 2007, 05:25 PM

Ive noticed in the bios on this board when asked to save and exit, after hitting f10 and clicking y to save and exit, hit enter and it just hangs there. I have to reboot to exit. I know this board needs motherboard updates but I can't even get as far as loading xp. Been doing the google route finding out what other's have done and I can't see a remedy by anyone yet. thanks.

**abfhand** · April 12th, 2007, 02:49 AM

Thanks OMGm.... I will get a matching pair. What's your opinion on this Corsair over the others? Can get 1 gb for 74.00... Thanks again for your help.

Corsair VS1GB400C3 1GB DDR400 PC3200 CAS3

**abfhand** · April 13th, 2007, 01:54 PM

I put a matching pair of Ultra 400MGz sticks in. Pretty sure they were 3200.. Still the samo-samo - The hard drive is listed now but I can't get anything to boot. Had Ecronis boot and said it can't load the operating system or something like that. What's a fella to do?

If I take the harddrive from this puter and put it in the mobo from hell, do you think it would work? at least if I can get the updates for the ecs board it should be able to boot up??

**NooNoo** · April 14th, 2007, 06:07 AM

If you are using XP or 2k or Vista, no it won't work, you can't just put a hard drive in a different machine and expect it to work.

By the sounds of it, the ecs machine is booting as far as loading windows, but stopping there. The quickest fix for this is to do a repair install.

**abfhand** · April 14th, 2007, 07:09 AM

Hello. There's no operating system on this machine. That's what I'm trying to do.........The puter boots and gets as far as ;verifying DMI pool data; - Update Success.........and stays there. I have the bios set to boot first from the floppy.. It's not booting when using a diskette.. Still giving the same cpu has changed warning. think I'll just toss this ecs board and try the gigabyte one.

**abfhand** · April 15th, 2007, 11:54 AM

I took this ECS board out and replaced it with the Gigabyte. Placed the harddrive in which was cloned by Ecronis from the other computer, and it fired right up and working ok right now. Will never give a second thought to an ECS board again. Just because of their sucking customer service and service after the sale...