Trying to renew my old computer

[momaka]

Re: Trying to renew my old computer

Do you have a known good board you could put the other components in to test? Hard to know if the problem is the board or something else.

I think O/P got the problem solved - issue was corrupt HDD... or at least according to post #25.

[SluggerB]

Re: Trying to renew my old computer

Do you have a known good board you could put the other components in to test? Hard to know if the problem is the board or something else. I have gotten similar results (lights and fan but nothing else) with bad RAM chips and bad capacitors near the RAM bank.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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I have started led lights, fan working but nothing on screen also no usb that responds the black ones I do not have the other usb yet, no sound either, do not know what to do next. .
You wrote about corrupt Bios that may need to be reprogrammed how to do it ?

That's a known symptom of a dead CPU or a socket problem.

If the BIOS got corrupted, then it's very likely that the BIOS chip is faulty.

[Agent24]

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That's why you have to strip it down to bare minimum parts before looking at BIOS etc.

Other bad devices always have the chance to cause problems.

[bohaboha]

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harddrive?
SATA right?
i'v seen that before but never understood how a fucked drive could stop the board booting.
but i didnt think you where testing with a drive, just cpu, ram and graphics.

I had everything in place all the time but I still do not understand how it can be so with the other motherboards it usually starts right away.not this time

[stj]

Re: Trying to renew my old computer

harddrive?
SATA right?
i'v seen that before but never understood how a fucked drive could stop the board booting.
but i didnt think you where testing with a drive, just cpu, ram and graphics.

[bohaboha]

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Hi all thanks for your advice the problem is solved it was apparently a corrupt HD that caused all the misery now with another HD everything works so once again thank you so much

[bohaboha]

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with a programmer - cant say more unless i see the chip.

The BIOS chip seems to be a Macronix MX25L3206EM2I-12G have read on Community Intel.com

[bohaboha]

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Some boards have a way to do BIOS recovery, try a Google search for this for example: Intel desktop DH67CF BIOS recovery

Have read around but it seems to be quite cumbersome and not safe now I'm talking about direct programming to chips therefore this motherboard does not respond to usb, hdmi or or speakers not even for the start button now it starts with a bridge

[Per Hansson]

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Some boards have a way to do BIOS recovery, try a Google search for this for example: Intel desktop DH67CF BIOS recovery

[stj]

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with a programmer - cant say more unless i see the chip.

[bohaboha]

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I have started led lights, fan working but nothing on screen also no usb that responds the black ones I do not have the other usb yet, no sound either, do not know what to do next. .
You wrote about corrupt Bios that may need to be reprogrammed how to do it ?

[stj]

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to everyone who helped, I put it all together but it does not work exactly the same as before. I wonder if I force the start using a bridge on the power supply instead of the start button it does not damage the motherboard?

no, it wont damage the board.
maybe the bios is corrupt and needs to be reprogrammed.

[stj]

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I do not understand what you mean

i was refering to boards that wont boot without a good battery

[bohaboha]

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to everyone who helped, I put it all together but it does not work exactly the same as before. I wonder if I force the start using a bridge on the power supply instead of the start button it does not damage the motherboard?

[bohaboha]

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all to save the cost of a double diode in a sot23 package!

I do not understand what you mean

[stj]

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all to save the cost of a double diode in a sot23 package!

[bohaboha]

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Topcat it is as you say the socket pins are good I have compared with something else they should be so.battery has replaced with a new one now we will see what happens will come back later

[ratdude747]

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CPU socket looks good to me.

I've seen some Acer mini systems that are like that....dead CMOS battery = no post!

Old ATI chipsets too!

[Topcat]

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CPU socket looks good to me.

make sure the battery is good - stupid as that sounds.
there are a few boards that wont boot without it!!

I've seen some Acer mini systems that are like that....dead CMOS battery = no post!