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Won't enter setup
Name: sky42 Date: December 19, 2008 at 05:45:01 Pacific OS: n/a CPU/Ram: 866/128 Product: Emach / 115661
Comment:
When I bench test this mobo it dislays a brief BIOS info page and displays an HP Invent splash screen even though it is an eMachines board. The problem is: when I enter F1 I get only a message that it is entering setup but it never does. I just stops at that point. All I have connected/installed on this board is power, PCI video card, memory and 833MHZ cpu. Could something like the video card be keeping it from entering setup? Or is this normal for a board with no other peripherals attached?
Name: OtheHill Date: December 19, 2008 at 06:30:09 Pacific
Reply:
How about some history or more details. Why are you bench testing the board anyway, for instance? I it out of a previously working system?
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Response Number 2
Name: Dumbob Date: December 19, 2008 at 07:44:35 Pacific
Reply:
Try it without the add in card and use DELETE key rather than F1.
There is nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.
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Response Number 3
Name: sky42 Date: December 19, 2008 at 11:43:48 Pacific
Reply:
Mystery solved!!! I replaced the video card and it entered BIOS OK. OtheHill - I was testing it because it was given to me to put into another machine and I didn't know it's history. Dumbob - if I remove the video card how do I know if it is booting properly.
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Response Number 4
Name: JRComp Date: December 19, 2008 at 12:54:32 Pacific
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Dumbob suggested that because most motherboards have on board vga output...but not all...it was a valid recommendation.
My name is JRComp, and I approve this message.
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Response Number 5
Name: sky42 Date: December 20, 2008 at 06:03:38 Pacific
Reply:
JRComp - I don't question the validity of DumBob's recommendation. I had to use a PCI card because the onboard VGA doesn't work. But for those mobo's which come without on-board VGA, how do you use DumBob's method, or do you? Thanx again:>)
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Response Number 6
Name: OtheHill Date: December 20, 2008 at 06:58:29 Pacific
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My two cents on this topic. The board in question is an emachines brand. I would bet that it does have integrated graphics and that Dumbob knows that.
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