Re: Suggestions for an HP M3970CM repair.
So, using the USB 3.0 port, we noticed something. If we mash ESC and while mashing it, we turn it on, it goes to a black startup screen that shows the RAM, etc. And at the bottom of that screen, it says Hit ESC for Startup or something like that. But to the far right of that message, it says Startup Menu or something. After a while, it goes to the video card BIOS's loading screen, like it's just initialized the video card, but freezes there.
If instead of ESC, we mash F10, it does the same. Next to the message that says Hit ESC for Startup Menu, now it says Setup Menu, like it's going to go into the BIOS setup screen, but it never actually goes. It eventually goes to the video card initialization screen, and then a black screen. I'm thinking this might have something to do with it being an UEFI BIOS. Maybe it's trying to load stuff off the hard drive. Maybe the original user deleted the UEFI BIOS stuff.
Maybe somewheres in the BIOS, they got the USB 2.0 ports disabled or something? I dunno. Anyway, it's not booting into the hard drive either. With the original BIOS (not the latest that I found on the site), it's very slow. With the BIOS from the broken board, it was much, much faster. I'm almost thinking of putting that other BIOS back in.
So, using the USB 3.0 port, we noticed something. If we mash ESC and while mashing it, we turn it on, it goes to a black startup screen that shows the RAM, etc. And at the bottom of that screen, it says Hit ESC for Startup or something like that. But to the far right of that message, it says Startup Menu or something. After a while, it goes to the video card BIOS's loading screen, like it's just initialized the video card, but freezes there.
If instead of ESC, we mash F10, it does the same. Next to the message that says Hit ESC for Startup Menu, now it says Setup Menu, like it's going to go into the BIOS setup screen, but it never actually goes. It eventually goes to the video card initialization screen, and then a black screen. I'm thinking this might have something to do with it being an UEFI BIOS. Maybe it's trying to load stuff off the hard drive. Maybe the original user deleted the UEFI BIOS stuff.
Maybe somewheres in the BIOS, they got the USB 2.0 ports disabled or something? I dunno. Anyway, it's not booting into the hard drive either. With the original BIOS (not the latest that I found on the site), it's very slow. With the BIOS from the broken board, it was much, much faster. I'm almost thinking of putting that other BIOS back in.
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