Can RDRAM keep a system from booting?

[`Elf]

Here's the short version:

all i get is led flash on keyboard and the cpu fan spins, no video
..

ECS P4ITA mobo circa 2001 & Intel P4 1.7 G cpu

pulled all components. Reassembled with memory (two 128's)and two dummys,
video card, hard drive, mouse, keyboard, and a floppy drive. Same, no boot.
Tried various video cards, same no boot, no video. Tried new 80 pin hard
drive cable, and new floppy cable, same no boot, no video.


Took cpu to computer shop in town and they let me use one of their 423
boards and their ddr memory. I used my video card, cpu, and power supply.

It lit up their board. Didn't hook a hard drive up, but the bios video
worked so now I knew the cpu, power supply, and video card was good.

Came home, rebuilt mine, same symtoms, no boot. The shop people thought it
was my mobo, but I forgot I used rdram until I got home. So now the
question is, can a bad rdram module cause my symptom?

Thanks a lot for taking the time to read all this.

Harry

 

[JAD]

The name of that board should be ECS PITA4U

short the cmos jumper and pull the plug and wait 1 minute reset jumper boot

Any ram can cause system faults...

 

[`Elf]

Your right about the name. I just checked the book on the mobo and it said
to pull all the power connectors off the board, short the cmos pins, plug um
back, turn on.

Same result, no video. I also tried it with the memory in and out of the
board.

So from this we can conclude its the board and not the memory. right?