I think my motherboard is dead

[CRSTech06]

Originally posted by: Cheex
Hmm...when i turn the power on...all my LED fans run, the hard drive and my 2 optical drives.
I don't think its the power.

Do i still need to do what you said?

That's a little different. In your original post you said the only thing that came on was your HDD LED. My guess is that the power supply is OK.
The article that winr suggested has excellent info (new to me).
If it was me I'd try that next.

 

[Cheex]

Can that method work with a flash drive?
My comp doesn't have a floppy disk drive...didn't see the need for one.
In my BIOS i had noticed that I can boot from Removable Drives...floppies i'm sure of but flash drives?

However, i don't think that will help because i would have to hit F11 to bring up the menu for selecting a source to boot from and i get nothing onscreen at all. No boot, No POST...No BIOS.

 

[CRSTech06]

If your dad's computer has a floppy you could borrow that one.

If the motherboard is still under warranty I'd send it back.

 

[Cheex]

Originally posted by: winr
Maybe this will help.


http://www.biosman.com/biosrecovery.html


....and...

I have done what "Thorpiedo" wrote on several mobo's before.


I copied this from "forums.whirlpool.net"

Credit to "Thorpiedo"

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Thorpiedo writes...
There are basically three steps involved in fixing the BIOS:
1. Get a floppy, make it bootable
2. Download the correct BIOS and flash utility.
3. Write an autoexec.bat file that automatically flashes the BIOS without user intervention (there are many examples of this on the net - I could find one for you).
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This method just does not work.