In trouble Iwill KK266-r, when starting the computer nothing works, not even a beep...!!!

[ManuTOmanU]

Ok here is what I have, I posted yesterday that I have had a virous, and today I was about to fire up my computer do rebuilt everything, like do a clean new install...

I formated, and tried to install w2k, but it hang when it says "starting windows" while coppying files (still at that dos blue screen)...

After doing that a few times, I tried win me, and same thing,,,

The message I got was, that the monitor went off and the monitor displayed its operating frequenzes...

Now I took out all my cards, and set the bios back to default, and wanted to restart, nothing....

No beep, no screen, nothing,,,,(the only thing I now have installed is the videocard, the cpu and the ram, oh and the floppy drive...)

I thought of that 133 Mhz FSB jumper, and set that to 100 MHz, still nothing happened, so I put it back, and then turned it on again, now I was asked for awdflash.exe...

Downloaded that and the latest bios, and now I am getting about 10 smilies on the screen when the awdflash disk in inserted, an nothing works...

WTF...

 

[LordThing]

Well, lets hope its not a dead board <strike from mind and mouth to even suggest such a thing and jinx things>


So, this is what I would do. Remove everything...cables, ram, vid card, everything except the processor. Unplug the power supply. Set the bios jumper to clear. Remove the batter from the Mobo. Now, go have dinner, lunch, watch a movie, masturbate, whatever. When you come back, set the battery back in, set the jumper back, and plug in.

Still with nothing connected, see if the machine will power on and give you error beeps that there is no ram and vid. If it does, thats good because your mobo is fine and your CPU isn't cooked. Then I would go piece by peice to see if something is conflicting(ie, 1 ram stick at a time, cables into the drives, ect).

I had an K7S5A do that to me and I thought I had a DOA board. Turned out, I switched the Dimms around and moved my Sound card to a different slot and everything was hunky dorry.


Good luck man, I feel for you. Its like loosing a baby.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

Ok, thanks, will do again, I didn't find time yesterday night, but now...

Keep you up...

 

[ManuTOmanU]

Ok, I am getting those beeps...

Now when I put some RAM in, I get a beep and then a break and another beep breaking up in the middle... That I cannot assign to the "BIOS Beep Sound core list " from Iwill....

Well but when I put the video card in, nothing, no more beeps, so I am guessing that it is that

1 long - 2 short(Beep) ------ Display card or monitor connected error

But I still don't have a keyboard or anything else connected, and no more beeps...

Doesn't that look like a bios problem, how do I get hold of a new bios chip, or how can I update that chip manually... Don't be concerned about tools, my uncle works with that type of media, but he wasn't sure what to play on the chip...

Thank you...

 

[Buz2b]

While I am not entirely convinced that it is a BIOS problem, the information you requested on getting a new BIOS chip can be found at BadFlash.com. Have you tried a different video card in there yet? Perhaps a cheap PCI card for a test.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

I have tried different video cards, also I tried removing these cards, and guess what, I don't get the beeps anymore, I checked the connections to the speaker and everything is fine, could my board be dead?

Well I am about to get some new parts...

My blackboxing isn't that great, I don't have 2 Athlons, so I need to find somebody that would test my CPU and then I would just get a new board....

 

[ManuTOmanU]

Is there any way to tell if my motherboard or my cpu is dead? Does a dead CPU look any different?