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August 3rd, 2008, 04:37 AM
#1
Dead motherboard?
A customers computer will not post, and will only flash a cursor in the top left corner. He said that he changed the FSB in BIOS, and thats when it happened.
I have tried resetting BIOS from the jumper and removing the battery. I wanted to try flashing BIOS, but it won't even get to that stage of reading from a floppy.
Any other ideas or did he toast the motherboard to death?
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August 3rd, 2008, 04:50 AM
#2
Have you got another cpu to try in the slot? Is the bios chip replaceable?
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August 3rd, 2008, 04:58 AM
#3
I will try another CPU.
BIOS chip is soldered to the motherboard.
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August 3rd, 2008, 07:06 AM
#4
I tried another CPU, and I got an error message of Bad Bios Sum which I had also gotten before intermittently. Looks like a dead BIOS/motherboard.
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August 3rd, 2008, 07:31 AM
#5
Time for an upgrade 
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August 3rd, 2008, 07:31 AM
#6
What's the rest of the story behind the pc and issue?
How old is it?
Was it working fine one day and NO changes of any type and then bopom, it quit working?
If you're happy and you know it......it's your meds.
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August 3rd, 2008, 07:33 AM
#7
 Originally Posted by Steve R Jones
What's the rest of the story behind the pc and issue?
How old is it?
Was it working fine one day and NO changes of any type and then bopom, it quit working?
All I know is what the customer told me. He changed the FSB settings in BIOS.
It's a socket 478, so I would say at least 3 years old.
It was apparently working just fine until he juiced up the FSB.
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August 3rd, 2008, 08:20 AM
#8
Well, this was most unexpected, and I'm not 100% sure what happened.
A few times, I had gotten a message that BIOS was trying to recover itself, and it said it was searching for a floppy disk. So I downloaded the latest bios, connected a floppy drive and tried it. I didn't see anything happening though, so I tried it a few times, and still nothing.
Then I just left it alone for about half an hour, and when I came back, what do you know! I got post, loaded defaults and Windows is up and running!
I would say a lot of luck was involved, but everyone needs luck once in a while 
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August 3rd, 2008, 08:30 AM
#9
Going to have an happy customer now .
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August 3rd, 2008, 09:50 AM
#10
Originally Posted by usil
All I know is what the customer told me. He changed the FSB settings in BIOS.
It's a socket 478, so I would say at least 3 years old.
It was apparently working just fine until he juiced up the FSB.
They rarely tell the whole truth - beware.
As far as the resurrection goes, don't give away your "trade secrets." They're worth referrals.
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