[COLUG] My weak understanding of BIOS

Aaron Howard archanoid at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 13:09:30 EST 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 11:46 -0500, David McGlone wrote:

> If it was the power supply, most likely you would not get power to the fan. if 
> it was the motherboard you should get beeps.
> 
> From your description of the problem the computer is not doing the POST  so it 
> sounds like you have a faulty BIOS chip. This is the reason your not gretting 
> any video or keyboard signal, because it's not getting past the POST stage.

Hopefully I'm not stating the obvious, but...have you checked to ensure
none of the caps on the mobo are bad?

-Aaron


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