PCI/AGP slot problem

[Travis King]

I could not find an ECS newsgroup for the ECS motherboard that I'm having
problems with. My great-aunt's daughter has a computer with an ECS
motherboard. None of the devices in the PCI slots or the AGP slot work.
They used to. The modem is no longer detected, the network card isn't
detected, and the video card isn't detected. All three show up in the
hardware thing, but all three have problems. The computer will only run at
640x480 @ 16 colors. I just reformatted it and I have the same problem.
Windows would automatically install the same network card in all of the
computer except this one? Have the slots gone bad on this motherboard?
What should I try? Thanks.

 

[Travis King]

By the way, I know in the past that XP would automatically detect all of
that hardware when I installed it, but now it won't...

 

[Travis King]

Also, I tried using the drivers off of the ATI website and all of them that
I try have some kind of installation error that comes up. I read and it
says that the ATI Radeon 7200 series is supported, which is the video card
used. Remember, all of the devices on the slots are having these kind of
problems. Did the controller (assuming there is one) for the slot devices
go out on the motherboard? Everything else is fine except ALL of the slot
devices including the AGP video card.

 

[Travis King]

The motherboard is older by the way, but it used to never have any problems.

 

[Travis King]

More specifically, the window title says Unhandled Exception.
Error Number: 0x80040707
Description: Dll function call crashed: ISLAYER.ISLIsATICard
Setup will now terminate.

 

[Malke]

The motherboard is older by the way, but it used to never have any
problems. "Travis King"

Thanks for all the good details, Travis. In my opinion, based on your
description, the motherboard is dead. Time to get a new one, or if the
entire computer is elderly, a new computer. If all the user does is
email, Internet browsing, simple 2D stuff (doesn't need a high-end
gaming machine IOW), a basic computer is very affordable. Just make
sure it has at least 256MB of RAM and a cd-rw drive.

Malke

 

[Travis King]

The computer has 256MB of RAM.

Thanks for all the good details, Travis. In my opinion, based on your
description, the motherboard is dead. Time to get a new one, or if the
entire computer is elderly, a new computer. If all the user does is
email, Internet browsing, simple 2D stuff (doesn't need a high-end
gaming machine IOW), a basic computer is very affordable. Just make
sure it has at least 256MB of RAM and a cd-rw drive.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

 

[Travis King]

I also tried to update the BIOS and it said that it failed to verify the
main block.

 

[brushes]

Thanks for all the good details, Travis. In my opinion, based on your
description, the motherboard is dead. Time to get a new one, or if the
entire computer is elderly, a new computer. If all the user does is
email, Internet browsing, simple 2D stuff (doesn't need a high-end
gaming machine IOW), a basic computer is very affordable. Just make
sure it has at least 256MB of RAM and a cd-rw drive.

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

From experience I find ECS boards not only good but very reliable however
bearing in mind how difficult is motherboard diagnostics without specialist
tools I would say that a new motherboard (as suggested above) is a
cost-effective option. When I have come across similar errors it has been
tested to be brittle earth problems from which there is no way back.

B

 

[Travis King]

I guess that motherboard is six years old also.

From experience I find ECS boards not only good but very reliable however
bearing in mind how difficult is motherboard diagnostics without
specialist
tools I would say that a new motherboard (as suggested above) is a
cost-effective option. When I have come across similar errors it has been
tested to be brittle earth problems from which there is no way back.

B

 

[Travis King]

It does have a 750MHz AMD Athlon CPU.

From experience I find ECS boards not only good but very reliable however
bearing in mind how difficult is motherboard diagnostics without
specialist
tools I would say that a new motherboard (as suggested above) is a
cost-effective option. When I have come across similar errors it has been
tested to be brittle earth problems from which there is no way back.

B

 

[Malke]

It does have a 750MHz AMD Athlon CPU.

It has gone to Motherboard Heaven. RIP. Time to move on. ;-)

Malke

 

[Glen]

sounds like a bad bios flash....replace the motherboard and start over

 

[Travis King]

(Organ music.)

It has gone to Motherboard Heaven. RIP. Time to move on. ;-)

Malke
--
MS MVP - Windows Shell/User
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"

 

[Travis King]

Funny thing, I put a new motherboard in it (also a new CPU and memory while
I was at it) and guess what? It no longer has any problems. It now has an
AMD Sempron 2400+.

 

[Malke]

Funny thing, I put a new motherboard in it (also a new CPU and memory
while
I was at it) and guess what? It no longer has any problems. It now
has an AMD Sempron 2400+.

Funny thing how replacing bad hardware will make a computer "just
work". ;-) Glad you got it sorted. Thanks for letting me know.

Malke

 

[Travis King]

In case you didn't hear, I replaced the board and the problems went away.
Got an MSI board this time.