Arcade Collecting > Merit/JVL Touchscreen
ECS ION Motherboard Boot Error
lilshawn:
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--- Quote from: mahkeymike on February 11, 2013, 01:04:43 pm ---lilshawn, There are many forms of atx. For example, flex atx, micro atx, and standard atx all have different mounting through holes. A perfect example is the ion cabinets made for the purple ecs mobo is atx where the cabinets for the asus mobo is micro atx. The force board is flex atx.
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I used ATX as an all-encompassing attributive, not as and explicit identifier.
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Im sure thats not what the poster asked. He wanted to know if the boards you and I have mentioned, will fit in the exact place as the board he possible wants to replace. In reference to the boards i know of, One is atx like the purple ecs and should mount right up, the other would replace the asus board.
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as ill fitting as the boards are to begin with, yes, they bolt right up to the original bosses.
mahkeymike:
Ok well one board is the biostar M7NCG. Way better board then the purple ECS. Hard to find though.
smartbomb2084:
So that means you can put a gold ASUS board in an EVO cabinet that came with a purple ECS board without any modification?
Doesn't the BIOS chip on the board determine whether its a MERIT board (MERIT BIOS chip) or a generic 'off the shelf' one with some other BIOS chip.
mahkeymike:
I replaced the purple ecs with the asus board and I had to add a mounting post so the board fit in the right place. The purple board is an extended atx where the asus is a micro atx so the puple board is wider. I included a pic marked to show where the pourple board mounting hole are and how the asus fits in its place. I also had to make a cut out in the IO board bracket to clear the SB heatsink. lilshawn mentioned trimming the heatsink itself, but i didnt want to mess with taking the heatsink off.
Also, its not the bios that determines if the board will work. Its the boards chipset device ID's that have to match.
lilshawn:
the one i found to replace Purple death, (Asus A7N8X-VM) is the same size and everything.
i just used a pair of tin snips to make a small cut-out in the I/O bracket because the power connector is in a different spot. (middle of the board.)
I had a bit of an issue with the audio not working at first, but i just booted up the machine with the old drive. Re-installing the software got it working again.
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