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just thought i would chime in my two cents worth... two bad mobos is very odd. are you certain that your power supply is ok? i had one die on me and it started to put out 22VAC - yes, AC on the +12VDC lines. not a good scene. others have made excellent suggestions, but i didn't see this one. good luck! moose. On Thursday 17 January 2002 14:55, you wrote: > At 07:17 AM 1/17/2002 -0700, you wrote: > >Nope. No beeps whatsover. No video display. Nothing. The CPU fan runs > >though and I hear some noise from the drives as I normally do. The D-panel > >diagnostic lights are all red. The manual says that combo of colors > >indicates a bad CPU but when I talked to MSI tech support last week the > >tech said if I don't hear any beeps it's a bad mobo. But, 2 in a row? If > >so, I think I'll return the board and go with some other vendor. > > Lee, > > I assume you have built this baby from scratch, right? It might help, and > it might not, to start at the beginning, and I mean the very beginning. > Empty every PCI and ISA, if present, bus slot. Pull out all sticks of > memory. Try to boot with just the system board, hard drive, cpu, and one > stick of your memory. Next try with your AGP, or PCI video, card. Get down > to the bare minimum of what you need, each time adding one piece, trying > the boot again. One thing to check very carefully is your wire LEDs. Try > these wires one at a time too, first PW LED, then SW LED, so on and so > forth. Sometimes these LEDs can simply be reversed, keeping BIOS from > starting. The posts about setting CPU speed in BIOS are right on but you > must first have a running BIOS to do so. Check all jumpers on board again, > and, if need be, clear CMOS with the jumper pin on your board. You > obviously need to have a running BIOS to do what must be done. I would just > troubleshoot along these lines, and if no BIOS can run, take the hardware > back, and demand a exchange. Good luck...... > > J. Craig Woods > UNIX/NT SA > -Art is the illusion of spontaneity- ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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