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    very urgent please help

    ok my pc was working ok last nite but i go to turn it on this morning and all the fans come on and stuff like nomal but it doesnt post so the monitor stays on standby and i cant do anything, there was no bios beep so it just stays on but nothing on the screen and no post?????? i find it hard to belive it would be a faulty component as they are all under a month old??

    please can you help as its the only pc in my house thisis 20 miles away at my bros,
    and i have things that need to be done on my pc
    thanks

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    First thing to check is reseat your graphics card - does your motherboard have onboard VGA? If so use that to access the BIOS and check all settings in there. Have you flashed your VGA card's BIOS at all? I did mine last week and had these exact symptoms, so had to borrow a PCI card to flash it back (always backup before flashing your BIOS!)

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    sorry mate i dnt quite get you,
    right my system is in sig i have tried reseating the card nothing,i have tried reseating the ram and still nothing,so what should i do borow a pci card and how does what you said work coz atm i cant get even into the bios,

    what has gone wrong then?


    **i did try and update my bios last nite but it failed to work??

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    Try clearing the cmos and see if that helps.

    How do you mean 'it failed to work'

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    i have tryed clearing the cmos well i went into asus live update at first and that didnt work then i tried winflash and it did something but an error occured so thats what i mean

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    Ooh - that sounds nasty - if you don't have onboard graphics I'd try putting another graphics card in - was it the motherboard or the graphics card BIOS you tried to flash?

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    mobo but everything works fine just no post

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    sounds like its possible you've screwed the motherboard bios. All the power may work but unless the bios kicks in and works out how to load everything you are not going to get anything.

    if a bios upgrade crashes during this proceedure its likely you lose the motherboard.

    Its written all over most bios upgrades that do not turn power off half way through etc, for that precise reason.

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    Did you turn it off after the failed bios flash? If so it's likely you've buggered the bios & the only way to recover it is to reflash the bios. However you wont be able to do that in your own machine as it's fubarded so the easiest solution is to buy a new bios chip which cost about £14.

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    What they said - I got database errors when trying to make my post.

    try it with another graphics card if you have one, but I wouldn't hold out too much hope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimborae
    Did you turn it off after the failed bios flash? If so it's likely you've buggered the bios & the only way to recover it is to reflash the bios. However you wont be able to do that in your own machine as it's fubarded so the easiest solution is to buy a new bios chip which cost about £14.


    wicked!!! lol
    where can i pick up a new bios chip then jim??
    and where bouts on the mobo do they go or will it be in my manaual??

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    That will depend entirely on what type of motherboard you have - some BIOS chips are fixed, so replacement of those can be a nightmare. What mobo do you have?

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    an8-sli please help me quick as i have to go soon

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    The chip is soldered onto the board below the second PCI slot - personally I would be looking to replace the board rather than spend money on another BIOS chip and risk damaging the board further while removing the old one and replacing it.

    That and the fact that I have no idea where you'd get a replacement chip!

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    https://sc.esupport.com/brc/index.cf...&modelNum=3148

    does this look like then one?

    and also if i do have to replace the mobo what happens about my files and all my stuff on my hardrive??

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    If you're replacing with the same model motherboard I see no reason to reinstall Windows, so your data should be safe.

    As for the chip, you could order one from there (I suspect it'll be the PLCC Winbond typ chip you need, but don't quote me on that) but as I say you'll need to get your hands dirty with a soldering iron...

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