Its a P4VMM2 Motherboard. Recently upgraded it to Win XP SP2 from 98. Worked fine for a week. This morning when I restarted the pc, there was an error, :shocked:
CMOS setup failed to load.
Press F1 to enter SETUP.
Press F2 to load defaults and continue.
I used the F1 option, the BIOS was kinda messed up.
My Primary IDE 0, Secondary IDE 0, etc was all reset to Auto. I remember, it was set to IDE Drive 0 and CDROM. I tried to make the necessary changes, but the BIOS freezed. I did a hard reboot. I got the same error again. I went into the BIOS and tried to change the settings, suddenly poof ...... everything turned off. Dead.
Steps Performed :
Checked the power button LED on the front of the computer - OFF
Determined if the system is using a known-good power source and removed any devices between the computer and the power outlet.
Swaped power cords with the monitor.
Removed all external components.
Reseated the power connections, memory and the control panel.
Removed all PCI, PCI-E, and AGP expansion cards from the desktop system.
Removed all memory from the system.
Disconnect all power and data cables from the drives.
Turned it ON and listen for beep codes - NO BEEPS.
Replaced with a known-good Power Supply.
Checked for flea power LED. I didn't find one. I don't know whether this motherboard does support one.
In all, when you turn the PC ON, you would doubt whether you really turned it ON. No beeps, no fans spinning, just dead. I am confused, whether it is the Motherboard because it never beeped when the memory was missing or is it the processor or the god-damn CMOS battery. I think the computer should turn on even if the battery is dead, throw out an error and go to sleep. But things here seem a bit cranky.
Please advise. :brokenheart:
CMOS setup failed to load.
Press F1 to enter SETUP.
Press F2 to load defaults and continue.
I used the F1 option, the BIOS was kinda messed up.
My Primary IDE 0, Secondary IDE 0, etc was all reset to Auto. I remember, it was set to IDE Drive 0 and CDROM. I tried to make the necessary changes, but the BIOS freezed. I did a hard reboot. I got the same error again. I went into the BIOS and tried to change the settings, suddenly poof ...... everything turned off. Dead.
Steps Performed :
Checked the power button LED on the front of the computer - OFF
Determined if the system is using a known-good power source and removed any devices between the computer and the power outlet.
Swaped power cords with the monitor.
Removed all external components.
Reseated the power connections, memory and the control panel.
Removed all PCI, PCI-E, and AGP expansion cards from the desktop system.
Removed all memory from the system.
Disconnect all power and data cables from the drives.
Turned it ON and listen for beep codes - NO BEEPS.
Replaced with a known-good Power Supply.
Checked for flea power LED. I didn't find one. I don't know whether this motherboard does support one.
In all, when you turn the PC ON, you would doubt whether you really turned it ON. No beeps, no fans spinning, just dead. I am confused, whether it is the Motherboard because it never beeped when the memory was missing or is it the processor or the god-damn CMOS battery. I think the computer should turn on even if the battery is dead, throw out an error and go to sleep. But things here seem a bit cranky.
Please advise.
:brokenheart:
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