ECS L4VXA2 will only boot once

[Ice13]

I went out yesterday and bought a new ECS L4VXA2 motherboard and installed it into my system. When turned on the system wouldnt boot but the system speaker began to make really long beeps. I jumped the cmos on the motherboard thinking that might have been the problem and it started. After that i went in to fix the cmos errors and reset everything, when i finished and exited the program it didnt restart just ran, after i manually restarted the system didnt respond but to make those long beeps again. Once more i flipped the cmos jumper and loaded this time all the way into my OS 98se, it shut down fine afterwards. Again on restart it did the exact same thing. I tested the battery and its reading a full charge, and there was plenty of power going to it from the power supply. Can someone please help me figure out whats going on, or is it time to RMA the motherboard?

[thronka]

Make sure you reseat all your components like ram and video card. Can you describe the beats?

[Ice13]

I tried that, everything is plugged in and its all set to cbl select for slave and master control. I cant detect any beats in the beeping like short then long so forth, none of that. It just emitts one long maybe 10 second beep after another.

[djordjevich]

It'll be good to know what kind of processor are you using on your mobo. It's well known that this mobo had lack of support with quad pumped Celerons (1.5V core) running on 100FSB. If that's what you're using I suggest you go on www.ecs.com.tw and download the latest 1.1E bios update and flash your BIOS (actually 1.1D fixes this error).
It's also well known fact that receiving long beeps means you've problem with your Memory. However I have no answer on that. You can only try to enter the BIOS, and change the memory speed to Manual (not spd) and lower it to 100MHz and see if something change.
I have the same mobo and I had problem with freezing due to above mentioned problem with the Celeron processors. After I updated the BIOS freezing dissapeared. Now I'm stuck with booting problem. Not always but enough frequent to piss me off, I can't boot up the PC. I've changed all the hardware inside and I'm pretty shore it's the mainboard causing the problem. The only suspicious thing left is the battery. If it's not the battery then I don't know what it is. Any ideas? Thanks

[kamaqasi44]

i have the same motherboard with a p4 2.66 160g hard drive. my memory is 512 ddr400 pc3200 and 512 ddr333 pc 2700. when i turn the computer on it makes a long beep and stops loading. it was working fine for a week but i turned it off one night and it hasnt started since. just the beep. what could be wrong?