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Name: quintonh
Date: March 30, 2005 at 18:51:18 Pacific
Subject: Major Problems
OS: Windows 98
CPU/Ram: AMD 2200

Comment:

Well, computer's psu went out, as it wouldn't turn on what so ever.
Replaced psu with a 250w from another computer. Tried to start it up, but it either wouldn't post or it would post, but when it got the screen listing the drives and memory, it would say cmos check sum error: loading defaults. It would do this everytime.
So i ordered a new motherboard and a 450w psu. Replaced them today, but still wouldnt post everytime. I could actually get into bios now, so i made some changes to the boot order and some small other things.
Went to boot, and now I have nothing. I have no video being sent to the monitor and the green light is no longer lit up on the front panel. Red led stays lit constantly.
I have tried swapping in a pci video card from another computer but still no video output.
Any ideas?
AMD athlon 2200
Syntax sv266ad mother board
msi 64 mb video card
a stick of 256mb ddr266 ram

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Response Number 1

Name: YOYO
Date: March 30, 2005 at 19:22:20 Pacific
Subject: Major Problems

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Try turning your power switch off and pulling the battery on the mobo out for a minute. Then replace and reboot. See if that works. You might not have set something correctly in the bios. If you have auto as an option in bios for all of your drives, use it.
YO

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Response Number 2

Name: quintonh
Date: March 30, 2005 at 20:06:39 Pacific
Subject: Major Problems

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Ok, I put in the old mobo, and now everything works fine, until I power the hard drive. Without the hd powered, it goes through everything but comes to the error of no boot drive found. Any idea now?

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Response Number 3

Name: ham30
Date: March 30, 2005 at 20:59:43 Pacific
Subject: Major Problems

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Hard drive cable connected the right way?
Master/Slave plugging correct?

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Response Number 4

Name: quintonh
Date: March 30, 2005 at 22:04:35 Pacific
Subject: Major Problems

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nothing was touched besides mobo/psu/cpu/ram

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Response Number 5

Name: Richard59
Date: March 31, 2005 at 00:06:35 Pacific
Subject: Major Problems

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Won't boot with harddrive connected. will boot without harddrive connected. It's a no-brainer. The harddrive is toast.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.
Teach him to fish and his wife will never forgive you.

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Response Number 6

Name: quintonh
Date: March 31, 2005 at 06:44:13 Pacific
Subject: Major Problems

Reply: (edit)

Just tried it with a different working hard drive. Same result. When I press tab to show the POST screen, it recognizes the drive. But then it goes to a black screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner. I shut it down when it gets to this screen since last time that happened, the other motherboard lost its video.

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Response Number 7

Name: setishock
Date: March 31, 2005 at 18:36:35 Pacific
Subject: Major Problems

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Did you at any time connect up the drive to either motherboard while the system was powered up?
I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid...

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