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Offline Gnslngr

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« on: April 23, 2004, 09:25:43 PM »
You guys have helped in the past well I need it again:

Last week my computer wouldnt boot....it would start up but the monitor light would just sit there and blink with me staring at a blank screen.

since then I've swapped out:

RAM
HD
CDROM
KEYBOARD
MOUSE
M. BOARD
VID CARD
powersupply

hell I have enough spare parts to build a new computer.  

The real meat fo the question is this.  With an HP m.board (my spare)  do you have to do anything special just to get the board bios to boot.

my spare is doing the same thing as the original...almost....it just sits there at that blue screen w/ HP Invent on it.  It is a P4 1.0G

Any help would be appreciated:
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« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2004, 09:27:34 PM »
Maybe resetting the bios? Not sure really, that is just a guess. There should be a jumper to do it.
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« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2004, 10:21:52 PM »
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Maybe resetting the bios? Not sure really, that is just a guess. There should be a jumper to do it.


I havnt found any jumpers but the keyboard loads cause the light comes on.  I get it to say "entering setup" but nothing after that.  I'm getting close in some of the trouble shooting sites but I've never had to TS a bad or corrupt bios
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« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2004, 11:45:16 PM »
cc, if you know what board it is you might be able to find a manual for it online. I had a similar problem and reset the bios, but I forget what I did to cause the problem.
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« Reply #4 on: April 24, 2004, 12:20:03 AM »
Pop the battery out.
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« Reply #5 on: April 24, 2004, 12:33:01 AM »
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Pop the battery out.


tried it...no change.  I've given up.  The guy I got the MB from says he never ran XP on it.  While booting I get the set up menu but the bios seems to lock up on any selection.  Anyone have any good sudjestions for an MB under $70.  That seems to be my budget right now.
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« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2004, 12:38:42 AM »
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tried it...no change.  I've given up.  The guy I got the MB from says he never ran XP on it.  While booting I get the set up menu but the bios seems to lock up on any selection.  Anyone have any good sudjestions for an MB under $70.  That seems to be my budget right now.


Can you give the model # of the mobo and who makes it, or the model # of the comp it came out of?
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« Reply #7 on: April 24, 2004, 10:34:45 AM »
Sounds like the motherboard but since you swapped that out I dunno. Assuming you set everything correctly it looks like the only thing you haven't swapped is the cpu, or did you include that with the mohterboard? You have thermal grease between the fan and cpu and the fan connected properly?
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« Reply #8 on: April 24, 2004, 10:38:47 AM »
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Sounds like the motherboard but since you swapped that out I dunno. Assuming you set everything correctly it looks like the only thing you haven't swapped is the cpu, or did you include that with the mohterboard? You have thermal grease between the fan and cpu and the fan connected properly?


yup my old ECS k7S5 is pretty much toast.  I have a PIII 1.0Ghz off an older HP.  The problem with that one is that the bios is screwd.  Everytime I try to access it it locks up on me.  I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be buying a new one....thing that sucks is that I have to get all new ram as most new MBs only have DDR slots and i'm still using SDRAM.

http://www.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=114901
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« Reply #9 on: April 24, 2004, 10:42:01 AM »
So you put another CPU in it? Was it faster? Maybe it is not recognizing the different CPU? Again, just another guess
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« Reply #10 on: April 24, 2004, 10:46:15 AM »
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« Reply #11 on: April 24, 2004, 11:01:45 AM »
I'm not sure if the CPU is bad or not on the ECS board.  I dont have a spar AMD CPU.  I went to the ecs site and tried a few diff. jumper settings with no joy.  The A drive light doesnt even come on.  I'm just to the point of were I'm lookin at replacing them both and upgrading to something a little faster

but I know my backup board (HP) wont boot either wich pisses me off cause that's the only reason I have it.  

to add insult to injurry I just got my wife her own computer so she stays off mine and now mines broke.  :mad:
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« Reply #12 on: April 24, 2004, 11:06:36 AM »
http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/manual_k7s.html

In this manual there is a jumper to clear the bios





 I cut out(in black near round batt) is where J4 is located, it should reset the bios.

It's worth a try if nothing else works.
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« Reply #13 on: April 24, 2004, 11:12:24 AM »
tried it....no joy ty for the help though
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« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2004, 11:13:27 AM »
Oh, just change jumper for a few seconds, then put back the way it was.   Sorry, maybe whack it with a hammer?;)
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