Did my BIOS just die?

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dorkus.erectus

My other PC has an ASUS A7N8X-X mobo only 20 days old.
XP2600+
512 PC3200 RAM
Radeon 9800 PRO
etc.

All was fine until last night when I booted.
POST was going fine until it gave a message that no keyboard was connected
and stalled at that point. It was connected but I turned off the power and
disconnected and reconnected it just to make sure.
The damn thing has not POSTed since.
I reset the CMOS via the jumper to no avail.
Could it be that the keyboard error was the first sign of BIOS/mobo failure?
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rick
 
and IS your kb plugged in correctly?

if yes

take out cmos battery for 30mins or so

try again
 
dorkus.erectus said:
My other PC has an ASUS A7N8X-X mobo only 20 days old.
XP2600+
512 PC3200 RAM
Radeon 9800 PRO
etc.

All was fine until last night when I booted.
POST was going fine until it gave a message that no keyboard was
connected
and stalled at that point. It was connected but I turned off the power
and
disconnected and reconnected it just to make sure.
The damn thing has not POSTed since.
I reset the CMOS via the jumper to no avail.
Could it be that the keyboard error was the first sign of BIOS/mobo
failure?
Any ideas?
Click to expand...

Firstly, did you reset the cmos with ALL power disconnected from the
box? If not then do it again with the power lead pulled out of the wall.

I had this a few times, but it was with an A7N8X v1.1 dlx, try holding
down the insert key while powering on and try it a few times. This is
known to load a set of safe settings for some nforce2 motherboards and
allow you to get into the bios settings.

Whenever I had a problem with no POST it was from overclocking and there
was no keyboard error, maybe you have other problems.

Try with a different keyboard type, if the old one was ps/2 then try a
usb one or visa-versa, just thinking that maybe there is a problem with
the ps/2 or a usb port on the mobo.
 
Apollo said:
Firstly, did you reset the cmos with ALL power disconnected from the
box? If not then do it again with the power lead pulled out of the wall.

I had this a few times, but it was with an A7N8X v1.1 dlx, try holding
down the insert key while powering on and try it a few times. This is
known to load a set of safe settings for some nforce2 motherboards and
allow you to get into the bios settings.

Whenever I had a problem with no POST it was from overclocking and there
was no keyboard error, maybe you have other problems.

Try with a different keyboard type, if the old one was ps/2 then try a
usb one or visa-versa, just thinking that maybe there is a problem with
the ps/2 or a usb port on the mobo.
Click to expand...

Thanks for the responses.
I tried everything mentioned and no joy.
The mobo probably died but I'll try my other CPU as a last resort.
If nothing then it's RMA time.

Rick
 
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