Quote Originally Posted by jdc2000 View Post
I am surprised that the ABit motherboard is still functioning, since the bad capacitor issue helped kill ABit.
That problem had been corrected several years before my motherboard hit the market - one of Abit's last and best. They sucked it up and replaced thousands of boards by 2005, but got past that catastrophe.

I already had the side cover of the computer off, the caps are all good. I rather suspect the CMOS battery, as it was dropping correct day/time before this...but I wasn't sure if that could muck up the password at the base level.