20 Most Recent EliteGroup P4M800-M7 Motherboard - Page 6 Questions & Answers

Hi there
Remove the video card from the machine and connect the monitor to the on-board video, then reset the CMOS , you will see a plastic jumper like the one in the picture near the battery, move it to the other position and power up the PC (nothing should happen which is good) then put the jumper back in the original position and power the PC up again. Hopefully the problem will be sorted and the problem was the video card.

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Test the CMOS BATTERY..TO MAKE SURE ITS GOOD IF NOT REPLACE.If it test good leave out for 5-10 minutes replace.motherboard bios should now beat default settings.reenter the bios.move cd to first boot.save changes.if you do not save changes it will not work.place.computer should now boot from disk.
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You might find the drivers here

http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdownloads.asp?model=p4m80-m7

No, the size does not matter. When you state the motherboard does not see the SATA drive are you saying the bios does not list the SATA drive? You're 750GB drive is most likely SATA 2.0 / 3.00BG transfer rate.
The P4M800-M7 does support SATA but it does not support SATA 2.0. So what you need to do to get the drive to function at a lower speed. Set to run Ultra 100/133MHz. You'll need help to do this. Try this software for Seagate. It might work for Seagate.
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/faqView.do?b2b_bbs_msg_id=126&orderNum=2
I haven't the time to research Seagates site for simular software.
However you can look through Seagate. Again you want to lower the SATA drive speed to Ultra. The bios will than see the SATA & so will windows.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads/seatools

Good Luck!

Mike

You could go as high in memory as you can find. You need to stay with the AGP bus though. Newegg has a good bunch of 512 mb AGP cards some even have DDR3 and that caught my attention.They'll set you back between 50 to 100 bucks for the realy good ones.

I checked the site and downloaded the manual and the board takes straight DDR not DDR2. This may or may not be true because they may have made the board in a newer revision that uses DDR2. It seems unusual to me that your could get the DDR2 ram in that board since the slots are different on every version of ram.The manual I have here is for motherboard Version 3.1.Is yours the same? Here is the page address if yuo want to download the manual. Keep me posted on this one if you will.I want to help you solve this.

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid=548&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Manual&MenuID=44&LanID=0

We need to know what kind of computer - if bought from a store brand name and model otherwise the motherboard maker and model. Do you have a discrete sound card or is the sound on your motherboard?

Usually if you go to Windows update, it should be able to find the drivers unless you have a very unique sound card/chipset. These are generall listed under the Hardware updates. When you do windows update, select custom and NOT Express. Then after it searches for updates you will see various categories - Software, Hardware - Click on the hardware and you should see the sound driver. Good Luck

Hi praph_wicked, normal order would be, floppy drive first, CDROM second & Primary hard disk drive third.
How ever if your bios does not comply you can always press the F8 key every two seconds & that should bring up (Please select boot device). Which will look like this;


Choose the CDROM drive with the windows CD in it.
If you have just one CDROM drive, make sure the jumper on the back side of the CDROM is set to "Master". If you have two CDROM drives connected, set one as master & the other to slave.
If using an IDE cable for the two CDROM drives. The CDROM at the end of the data connector is to be set as master, the 2nd CDROM connects to the next IDE connector & Its jumper is set to slave.

Good luck!
Mike

Kingston Value Ram will do, nothing over 533mhz

regards

the problem is with the new ram.
its phsically damged.
may be little bit that you cant see it.
try checking the other 1GB ram.

have try changing the setting on the bios.

Hi 2gerr, when you tested the board, was the board outside of the you're case?
Here is one suggestion you can try. Start the PC & press the F5 key every two seconds untill Windows Advanced Options Menu
is displayed on you're screen. You can not use you're mouse here. Use the up & down arrow keys & slide to, Disable automatic restart on system failure. Than press enter. What this should do for you is stop windows from restarting & give you time to catch what is causing windows to restart. If you receive a blue screen with an error message write it down. Press the pause key on the keyboard so you'll have time to write down the error message. It would not hurt to enter you're bios and turn off hault on all errors listed in the main menu of the bios.
Another could be the back side of the board could be touching the case. You can add a piece of a paper bag under the board.
Stopping a possible short. Lastly, enter you're bios & go the hardware monitor. Open hardware monitor & leave it there. Shut off you're monitor & walk away for about 10 minutes or so coming back from time to time & check the temp of you're CPU & mother board temp. Staying in the bios, let me know if the PC restarts.

Mike

I have never had a problem with Mobo's supporting 2 GB of memory.
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid=548&DetailName=Specification&MenuID=44&LanID=0

As per the website your mobo supports 2 GB memory.

Yes, according to the specs that I read the P4M800-M7 (socket 775?) is designed to support pc333.

Only one time I had a problem with an ECS motherboard, I had the correct memory, but the board had a different voltage requirement. Did not cause any issues, other than it didn't work. I don't think that this would be a problem for you though.

What is the color of light on the monitor or is it not turned ON at all? - Check the cable connecting the monitor to the CPU...unplug it from the CPU and replug it - try a different monitor if you have one please revert back with any other observations

Is there anywhere in BIOS to check RAM settings

Chances are you need to change the power supply,, but first you need to check to see if its workingm this is quite easy

1.) unplug it
2.) remove the power connector from the main board
3.) on the power connector is a green wire(ONLY ONE) and right next to it is a blact wire(any black will work)
4.) use a peper clip or unisulated wire to bridge the green and black wire by inserting it into the jack contacts.
5.) plug in the power supply, if the fans spins then its working..

If the power supply is fine then you will need to check the power button connectors *wire from power button that connects to the main board),, if the connection is fine, then unjack the connectors and use a bladed screwdriver to bridge the pins for the power button connector on the main board,it should boot up. If not then you need to have that mainboard replaced

Here you go:
http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/Downloads/DownloadFile.aspx?catid=1&driverid=1764&areaid=2&LanID=0

Seagate shows you're did not come with a jumper.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=63557ea70fafd010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD&locale=en-US
Try removing the jumper. Check if bios see's the drive. Most motherboards that do not support SATAII will automatically reduce the drive/split the SATAII down to 150MB's. If you had or have another SATA & the bios saw or see's the SATA than it's not the motherboard's SATA controller. Take some time & go through Seagate's trouble shooter site.
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=serial_ata_troubleshooter&vgnextoid=85a34a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD
If the bios did find another SATA other than the ST3750640AS-RK than it's possible the drive has an issue & may need to be exchanged.

Lets hope it's the drive & not the motherboard controller.

Mike

Hi kapitan, for starters the AGP is faster than a PCI. Yes, you can upgrade to 512MB. There is a direct path to the CPU when using an AGP video card.
Elite Group has 2 P4M800-M7's. One is version 1.0 & 3.1.
Though both boards are very similar they are different when it comes to CPU support.
When you view the main pages for you're Elite Group P4M800-M7. Look to the left for CPU Supported & click it. I'll list both boards along with their link to supported CPU list. You will need to find the version number (on the board) in order to pick the correct CPU supported per version number.
Link 1, Version Number 1.0
http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid=531&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Specification&MenuID=7&LanID=9
CPU's supported. V1.0
http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Support/CPU_Support_Model.aspx?detailid=531&MenuID=69&LanID=9

Link 2, Version 3.1
http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Products/ProductsDetail.aspx?detailid=548&CategoryID=1&DetailName=Specification&MenuID=7&LanID=9
CPU's supported V3.1
http://www.ecsusa.com/ECSWebSite/Support/CPU_Support_Model.aspx?detailid=548&MenuID=69&LanID=9

Depending on the version number you can reach CPU of 3.8MHz.

Hope this was helpful.
Feel free to ask if you need more service.
Good Luck!

Mike