Computer Won't Post....Need Ideas.....

[bob4432]

got a small problem. a friend of mine asked me to look at this computer of his. i was told that it had a really bad virus (?) and he wanted me to clean the virus if possible. unfortunately i don't think i am getting the whole story, because i found out this computer was completely replaced by another one.

here is the setup:
asus p2b-ds
1 p3 550/512/100/2.0v S1, the other slot has some kind of asus card in it that says asus p2t pc100, i am not at all familiar with the slot chips (amd or intel) so bear with me
2 x 256MB PC100
scsi hdd/cdrom/cdrw

i have rewired the front panel because they were not correct, i have verified that the fsb is set to 100MHz and i have also changed the jumpers for the multiplier to from 3.5x to 5.5x.

i hit the button, the pwr led comes on, all optical drives due their little led blink, all fans start up and that is it. the monitor doesn't kick out standby and no post screen. i have changed out the agp card with a known good pci one but no problem. i have attempted to short the solder spots for the cmos clock, but again nothing. if i remove the cmos battery, how long before the data is gone?

also, when i have connected a network cable to the nic, the connection led does light up, but nothing else.

any ideas???

thanks in advance

 

[Bleep]

if i remove the cmos battery, how long before the data is gone?

Not long, you may not have to remove it, if it has that little clip on the top just slip a piece of paper under it for a minute or so.
Bleep

 

[bob4432]

i removed the battery for about 5mins, but still same problem any other ideas?

 

[bob4432]

thanks for the help, i reseated the ram again and it works

 

[HonkeyDonk]

Originally posted by: bob4432
thanks for the help, i reseated the ram again and it works

I find that reseating something a lot of the times solves the problem. I had an older comp that I built a while back that wouldn't post, everything would power up and then blank screen. I reseated the cpu and it worked like a charm. (that is until I fried it by O/Cing it w/o proper cooling )

 

[appu]

Originally posted by: HonkeyDonk

Originally posted by: bob4432
thanks for the help, i reseated the ram again and it works

I find that reseating something a lot of the times solves the problem. I had an older comp that I built a while back that wouldn't post, everything would power up and then blank screen. I reseated the cpu and it worked like a charm. (that is until I fried it by O/Cing it w/o proper cooling )

There's another thread in this forum "Best nForce2 motherboard around?" that I'd started. Basically, I am facing this exact problem
right now and I've reseated the video card and RAM sticks an uncountable number of times. Sometimes the machine boots up
but it just hangs at the memory test or a few seconds after the OS has loaded completely.

I thought either my power supply or my mobo has gone for a walk. I haven't yet tried reseating the CPU. Damn Swiftech heatsink
doesn't make the task a very enjoyable or easy thing to do . I think I'll do that tonight after all.

Bye,
Appu

 

[bob4432]

before i got my hands on the machine, it was moved around a lot by some "computer unfriendly" people, they might have loosened it.....