[SIS Series] 661FM3-L "updating ESCD"

Hi
Just purchased the 661FM3-L board, have P4 531 3.0g processor, WD 120G Sata drive.
Problems are that it boots as far as "updating ESCD" and hangs, can't get it to boot from floppy or CD, and shows no Primary drive.
Please help
Thanks

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[SIS Series] 661FM3-L Hang after updating ESCD

Hi guy!
My configuration
. 661FM3-L motherboard
. Intel Pentium 4 processor 630 3GHz, 800MHz FSB and 2Mb L2 cache
. RAM 512Mb 184Pin DDR-DIMM 400MHz no parity
. WD HD 40Gb
computer hang on Updating ESCD!!!
1. Bios see only 393Mb RAM
2. 1 beep on boot
3. see all correct peripheral
4 hang up
something to do?
Codebue Fabio

>your board has an onboard vga card not a seperate one i assume
>it uses part of the ram and only the rest is for windows
ok I understood!
>you connected the monitor to the board
ya infact I can see all the boot process but hang on update ESCD
this are PCI devi listing
Bus.N. DeviceN. Func.N. Device IRQ
0 2 5 IDE Cntrlr 14
0 2 7 Multimedia device 10
0 3 0 USB 1.0/1.1 OHCI Cntlr 5
0 3 1 USB 1.0/1.1 OHCI Cntlr 10
0 3 2 USB 1.0/1.1 OHCI Cntlr 11
0 3 3 USB 2.0O EHCI Cntlr 9
0 5 0 RAI Cntlr 11
0 11 0 Network Cntlr 10
0 0 0 Display Cntlr 5
>did you load the o/s new on this board
no, but I try with another HD (SATA) clean... nothing todo
>not move the drive from an older pc with different chipset as its not going to work
I did !
sigh

[SIS Series] 661FM3

I have installed a new pc , a PIV 3.0Ghz 2Mb cache but when i boot the pc ,it hangs up on Updating ESCD.....
I have reseated the CPU and power supply is ok.
Anyone solved this problem cause I'm freaking out.
I have 5 pc's with same problem !!!!!!

That jumper only prevents flashing the boot block area of the bios. Are you sure you are trying to flash the correct bios?
Have you tried Clear CMOS Guide
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I don't have the computer here now, I brought it back to the retailer.
What is NVRAM and under what menu in the BIOS do I find it? I can't remember that I have seen it even though I think I have looked everywhere. What I do know is that sometimes during the boot I have got the message NVRAM protected instead of Flash ROM protected (and then I have the same problems).
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I haven't payed much attention to voltages, but I have noticed that 12V varies slightly between 11.9 something and 12.04 (I think), and then something is usually around 5,12 and the third maybe 3,47, but I'm not 100% sure I remember correctely.
The hard drive is primary master and the optical drive secondary master. If I enable the SATA controller they are listed as IDE channel 0 and 1 (IIRC).
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Communication Port   Communications Port (COM2)
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Disk Drive   Maxtor 6B160P0 (160 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Disk Drive   HP PSC 2355 USB Device
Optical Drive   AOPEN CD-RW CRW5224 (52x/24x/52x CD-RW)
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Optical Drive   VOBID InstantDrive CD SCSI CdRom Device
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D: (NTFS)   33973 MB (29625 MB free)
E: (FAT32)   1377 MB (126 MB free)
I: (NTFS)   156327 MB (143043 MB free)
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Mouse   PS/2 Compatible Mouse
Network
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Modem   Creatix V.9X DSP Data Fax Modem
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USB1 Controller   SiS 7001 PCI-USB Open Host Controller
USB1 Controller   SiS 7001 PCI-USB Open Host Controller
USB Device   HP PSC 2350
USB Device   PSC 2350 series (DOT4USB)
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