The machine runs SETI, so I figure it's alright to ask you guys 
Hopefully one of you geniuses can tell me what exactly is wrong here:
I've got a problem with one of my computers (click the Systems link in my sig, it's DarkMajiq's 1.5GHz Athlon). I built it for my dad a while ago. Anyway, he turned it on this morning, and there was kind of a funny burning plastic smell and apparently it was BSODing with all sorts of error messages. So, he turned it off. I came to take a look at it, and the first thing I noticed is that the top of the case is covered in dust (the house isn't entirely finished, and they were doing some work in his office recently). So, I go and unplug all the cables and such, and open it up. And holy shíte was there a lot of dust in there! So I set about with the dustbuster and the vacuum and the duster and managed to get most of it out. So, I start it up again with the case open - the mobo has a convenient little LED that can show you most things that are wrong. Anyway, it starts up fine, goes into Windows. The only problem is the keyboard isn't working (yes, it was plugged in). I also tried another keyboard, and it didn't work either. Anyway, tried a couple more times, nothing seemed to work. I can't get into the BIOS since they keyboard's not working. And now when I start it up, it stalls at the screen right before the Windows ME logo comes up. It's saying something about DMI Updated or something like that. To finally get to the point, I'm thinking that this is a motherboard problem. I'd originally thought processor, since that would have explained the smell, and its cooler was making a horrible noise when I first tried it before cleaning it thouroughly of dust, but the fact that the keyboard's not working would seem to indicate to me the mobo, although the LED runs through the check and shows FF (fully functioning). Should I try to clear the CMOS? Or what should I do?
Hopefully one of you geniuses can tell me what exactly is wrong here:I've got a problem with one of my computers (click the Systems link in my sig, it's DarkMajiq's 1.5GHz Athlon). I built it for my dad a while ago. Anyway, he turned it on this morning, and there was kind of a funny burning plastic smell and apparently it was BSODing with all sorts of error messages. So, he turned it off. I came to take a look at it, and the first thing I noticed is that the top of the case is covered in dust (the house isn't entirely finished, and they were doing some work in his office recently). So, I go and unplug all the cables and such, and open it up. And holy shíte was there a lot of dust in there! So I set about with the dustbuster and the vacuum and the duster and managed to get most of it out. So, I start it up again with the case open - the mobo has a convenient little LED that can show you most things that are wrong. Anyway, it starts up fine, goes into Windows. The only problem is the keyboard isn't working (yes, it was plugged in). I also tried another keyboard, and it didn't work either. Anyway, tried a couple more times, nothing seemed to work. I can't get into the BIOS since they keyboard's not working. And now when I start it up, it stalls at the screen right before the Windows ME logo comes up. It's saying something about DMI Updated or something like that. To finally get to the point, I'm thinking that this is a motherboard problem. I'd originally thought processor, since that would have explained the smell, and its cooler was making a horrible noise when I first tried it before cleaning it thouroughly of dust, but the fact that the keyboard's not working would seem to indicate to me the mobo, although the LED runs through the check and shows FF (fully functioning). Should I try to clear the CMOS? Or what should I do?
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