I replaced the Dallas CMOS/Battery chip with the exact part number as the one removed. The chip was soldered in the board so requred a little more effort than new computers. The replacement was very clean with no damage. The system was also using ezbios to recogniz a 6G HDD. Powering on the unit with the new CMOS chip all I get is the fans spinning up and some hard drive noise. No video, no HDD light, no beeping, no keybord. It wil not recognoze the floppy drive either. What needs to be done to get my system running again?

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You say it doesn't recognize the floppy drive but with no video how do you know? Also, how did you manage to get XP installed on that thing? It's way below the minimum for XP installation. Isn't that dallas chip just the battery? If you did replace the cmos chip are you sure you got the right one? I think you probably put it back together wrong. Disconnect all the drives and remove all the cards except video. Then see if you get a posting screen. If that doesn't do it maybe the motherboard is shorting somewhere. You may need to remove it and have another look.