K8t neo far-2 does not boot. fans work.

Hi all,
I have been reading the post about this motherboard not posting and simular problems with these boards but mabey mine is a little different. Here is what I have:
- Thermaltake Tsunami dream
- Antec True 550 eps12 volt
- Amd Opteron 244 cpu in slot one.
- Kingston ram KVR333X72Rc2/512 registered ram.
- Gigabit gforce fx5900xt vidio card
When I finally got the vidio card installed it and powered up the pc. Did not post or no audio beeps from the speaker. Tried switchin ram slots with this single stick of ram and tried a pci vidio card cannot get vidio/audio post or beeps.
I have taken out all the drives to minimize this system to its bare essentials to isolate the problem.
All I get is the cpu,case and power supply fans that come on and thats it.
I read in the post that the not hooking up the 4 pin molex from the eps12 volt to the Jpwr2 is not to be done as this actuall supplies power to the vidio card? Doing so would fry the motherboard? If so then why does my vidio card have the traditional molex connector on it as seen on hard drives? it does not match the one on the motherboard. 2. If that square white semi clear four pin connector from the eps ps does not go into that jpwr2 jack on the motherboard then what does it go to???
Are there bios test LEDS on this motherboard? I dont see any.
Lastly I hear a faint click every 10 second on the pc speaker but no bios codes.
You help is much appriciated to rectify this problem.
James

In dont want to except this as a blown board. I dont have any warentee on this mothetboard as it was purchaced though a second party.
If by chance placing the 4 pin molex power cable comming from this power supply into the four pin connector on the motherboard "IEEE is going to hear about this" and it did fry the mothboard would it also fry the cpu and ram? I HOPE NOT what have you heard from other people?
Bas, read compatibility list about ram and the kingston ram I should be using.
While this list did not include my ram it should work right?
My ram may be a little faster but it is ECC. The ram I ordered was specificially ECC kingston ram from compucare and it should work. The ram model number is
KVR333X72RC25/512
Also, the power supply is a Antec True 550 EPS12V
The power supply specs are as follows:
DC output +5V +12V +3.3V -5V -12V +5V SB
MAX. 40A 36A 32A .5A 1.0A 2.0A
Min. 0A 0.8A 0A 0A 0A 0A
Now Even with the cpu and memory taken out there should be some post beeps on the speaker? I dont think I have done this yet.
Lorin

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Reattach the battery.
Connect the AC adaptor to the power socket that was confirmed to be working in the first step.
Connect the other end of the AC adaptor to your computer.
Try starting the computer.
If your laptop starts normally now, you're done!
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Satellite M30-107 does not boot correctly after Recovery disk usage

Hi
I've recently got hold of a second hand toshiba Satellite M30-107 laptop, and decided to freshen it up.
I used the toshiba recovery disk, but after doing so the laptop no longer loads windows.
When turned on it shows the Toshiba start up disk for about a second then goes to a blank screen and freezes.
When turned off and on again a screen comes up reporting an error in shutting down and gives the options to start in safe mode etc. but choosing any of the options causes the machine to freeze.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
jt

Hi
Sounds a little bit like the notebook does not boot due to the Windows software issue
Did you recover the M30 with the original Toshiba recovery CD which was supplied with this M30 unit?
Maybe Im wrong but for me it looks like a wrong recovery CD was used and an image with non compatible drivers was installed
You could try to install the OS from original Microsoft Win XP CD and could check if it would be possible to get the notebook ruining using clean OS.
In such case we ( you and me ;) ) could find out if this issue could be related to the software or hardware.
Bye

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