Oldfoof what PSU do you have ?...I read a lot of 300w PSUs won`t boot with this Epox board.
<< Out of the box and onto the test bench...the board doesn't boot. Not a promising first sign, I set about trying to work out the problem. What I discovered was that in some situations, the diagnostic LEDs don't always...diagnose. You see, they will tell you if your ram is iffy, or your video won't initialise, but they won't tell you if there is something fundamentally wrong with the system - what's become known as the 'FF' problem, so called because the LEDs display FF without cycling through their boot-up diagnostics.
In my case, the problem was power. You see, this board has a '3-phase' power socket. Now I can't tell you exactly what that means technically, but I can tell you that it means you'll need an extra-fat PSU to power it. My Aopen 300W wouldn't do it, neither would my QuietPC 300W. Neither would my friend's Macron 400W.
After consulting with Epox Tech, I'm told that what you need is a PSU that will give you a large amount of 'combined power' - that is, power to the RAM, graphics and CPU (which the PSUs I'd tested don't). Replacing my GeForce 3 with a TNT2 solved the problem - less combined power was needed by my system. However, I wasn't about to test this board with a TNT2, so I gave a shout to my best buds over at Chillblast and they hooked me up with a 431 Enermax by courier. This seems to me to be the PSU daddy, and has powered my board without any problems so far. >>
<< Out of the box and onto the test bench...the board doesn't boot. Not a promising first sign, I set about trying to work out the problem. What I discovered was that in some situations, the diagnostic LEDs don't always...diagnose. You see, they will tell you if your ram is iffy, or your video won't initialise, but they won't tell you if there is something fundamentally wrong with the system - what's become known as the 'FF' problem, so called because the LEDs display FF without cycling through their boot-up diagnostics.
In my case, the problem was power. You see, this board has a '3-phase' power socket. Now I can't tell you exactly what that means technically, but I can tell you that it means you'll need an extra-fat PSU to power it. My Aopen 300W wouldn't do it, neither would my QuietPC 300W. Neither would my friend's Macron 400W.
After consulting with Epox Tech, I'm told that what you need is a PSU that will give you a large amount of 'combined power' - that is, power to the RAM, graphics and CPU (which the PSUs I'd tested don't). Replacing my GeForce 3 with a TNT2 solved the problem - less combined power was needed by my system. However, I wasn't about to test this board with a TNT2, so I gave a shout to my best buds over at Chillblast and they hooked me up with a 431 Enermax by courier. This seems to me to be the PSU daddy, and has powered my board without any problems so far. >>