- Joined
- Oct 28, 2003
A friend of mine brought over an olde BE6-2 board he moved and had in storage. He dug his box out and was reinstalling windows when his machine went blank and would come back up. I replaced every part testing the ram, video cpu everything and it would not post. I have the same board i upgraded to an NF7 all his stuff works in my board but not his.
I pop out my bios chip and put it into his board and it posted and seems to work ok. So i think maybe the chip went bad trying to clear the cmos. I try a hot swap and try and reflash his chip. After the flash its still dead. Its like the bios totaly failed and will not even take a flash at all.
First thing i noticed right away was his cmos battery was dead, completly drained. I found this to be kinda odd thats when i started thinking the bios chip had a problem.
how can the bios chip be completly dead like that? can they short internaly? maybe this is what drained the battery.
It was weird it wouldnt even take a flash.
All he wants to do is DL the paris hilton videos...lol i know thats what hes doing...lol
I pop out my bios chip and put it into his board and it posted and seems to work ok. So i think maybe the chip went bad trying to clear the cmos. I try a hot swap and try and reflash his chip. After the flash its still dead. Its like the bios totaly failed and will not even take a flash at all.
First thing i noticed right away was his cmos battery was dead, completly drained. I found this to be kinda odd thats when i started thinking the bios chip had a problem.
how can the bios chip be completly dead like that? can they short internaly? maybe this is what drained the battery.
It was weird it wouldnt even take a flash.
All he wants to do is DL the paris hilton videos...lol i know thats what hes doing...lol
