On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, EL Doctorow wrote:
So for those of you who have been playing along my 6 yr old
pc seemingly died after a simple battery replacement. Battery
turned out good. Kindly comment on the order of putting this
back together. I was going to start with just the AGP
graphics card, the monitor and the battery and no memory and
then one at a time put back the three memory sticks. If this
is correct in what order should I be adding the keyboard,
mouse, modem etc and where in that order do the other PCI
cards come in as well as the hard drives. TIA.
You will probably need at least one stick of mem to start with.
I usually leave the video card out (if possible) and make sure
ALL power leads not going to the mb (or a cpu fan, but these
normally come from the mb) are unplugged from their respective
devices. Depending on the mb, you should get some beeps that
indicate video was not detected. At that point I add the video
card, and maybe the kb and try again. If the bios comes up, you
may want to reset it to defaults, and then go through it to
change the more obvious things, like the date and so on. If it
still comes up, then add the hd. But everybody does things
differently, so YMMV and all that.
BTW I have had this happen to me more than I care to remember.
It's not very frequent, but enough to know that it's usually
something that has been ever so slightly jostled. But I have
not had a dead mb yet from changing the batt, even if they
**appear** that way.
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