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| Thread ID: 93858 | 2008-10-03 07:34:00 | Old Faithful has turned up its toes....... | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 709602 | 2008-10-04 22:16:00 | Does a box that old even have AGP? Ive got a PCI Video card if need be ;) Nothing wrong with drawing the most value out of hardware you've paid good money for :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 709603 | 2008-10-04 22:27:00 | I had a faithful old Win98se machine a few years ago that pulled exactly the same trick. :( I never did find the exact cause, but I could fire it up using wife’s hairdryer and heating the BIOS chip. The BIOS chip was a plug in one and I never could find a similar Motherboard I could pinch a replacement out of. :D Eventually it was sent off to Computer Heaven, sad really. :badpc: That could have been caused by bad electrical contact between the chip and its socket, or bad contact between the socket and the board - or the chip itself could have been faulty in some way. In any case, BIOS chips are generally interchangeable provided they are the same size (in Mbit) and use the same programming voltage. doesn't really matter what board they are from. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 709604 | 2008-10-04 23:39:00 | That could have been caused by bad electrical contact between the chip and its socket, or bad contact between the socket and the board - or the chip itself could have been faulty in some way. In any case, BIOS chips are generally interchangeable provided they are the same size (in Mbit) and use the same programming voltage. doesn't really matter what board they are from. Yes it could have been any of those things, although I checked for a dry joint with a fairly powerful magnifying headset and removed and re-seated the chip, so I concluded it was something microscopic within the BIOS chip itself. Anyway, I only mentioned it in case Wife’s hairdryer may help Billy fire the computer up and allow him to retrieve what further information he would like. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 709605 | 2008-10-05 03:00:00 | *might* be a case of a dead BIOS battery. I've seen PCs that refuse to POST at all or do very very strange things when the battery is flat It is a new battery, only fitted a month or so ago, and this box doesn't stop on flat CMOS batteries, all it does is refuse to detect the keyboard. It was very considerate too, and always gave an advance warning about six months before the battery expired by changing a port setting in the Bios and shutting down one printer. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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