(As you can see this is an older gaming computer I still use to run older simulations that won't work with Vista and store pictures so I may not boot up for a month or two at times.)
I went to boot it a few days ago and the familiar sound of hard drives spinning up following by a clicking sound from the drives. Spin up, click, spin up, click. The screen was dark and it never made it to memory test.
I thought maybe the PSU died so I switched it out with another pc. It did boot this time to show processor and memory test pass then it just stays there. At the bottom it says press DEL for setup, or Alt-F2 for flash utility-I DEL and nothing happens.
A few times after reset sometimes it might say detecting IDE drives but nothing happens.
I cleared the CMOS-no change
I swapped the CMOS battery and cleared CMOS again-no change.
I pulled out one memory stick and rebooted-no change
I pulled out the other memory stick and rebooted-no change
I swapped the slots and rebooted-no change
I unplugged all devices except for the video card and hard drives-no change
I unplugged my ps/2 keyboard and tried a usb keyboard-no change
Could the old psu maybe fried the bios chips on start up? I didn't smell anything like burning on start up.
Since my drives are setup in RAID could it be that? I don't know much about RAID but I assume a RAID issue would not prevent me from entering bios?
Howard
Maryland, USA
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Asus A7N8X Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 1250MHz
ATI 9800
1MB memory
RAID
I went to boot it a few days ago and the familiar sound of hard drives spinning up following by a clicking sound from the drives. Spin up, click, spin up, click. The screen was dark and it never made it to memory test.
I thought maybe the PSU died so I switched it out with another pc. It did boot this time to show processor and memory test pass then it just stays there. At the bottom it says press DEL for setup, or Alt-F2 for flash utility-I DEL and nothing happens.
A few times after reset sometimes it might say detecting IDE drives but nothing happens.
I cleared the CMOS-no change
I swapped the CMOS battery and cleared CMOS again-no change.
I pulled out one memory stick and rebooted-no change
I pulled out the other memory stick and rebooted-no change
I swapped the slots and rebooted-no change
I unplugged all devices except for the video card and hard drives-no change
I unplugged my ps/2 keyboard and tried a usb keyboard-no change
Could the old psu maybe fried the bios chips on start up? I didn't smell anything like burning on start up.
Since my drives are setup in RAID could it be that? I don't know much about RAID but I assume a RAID issue would not prevent me from entering bios?
Howard
Maryland, USA
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Asus A7N8X Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 1250MHz
ATI 9800
1MB memory
RAID
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