Help! BIOS hangs on any valid bootable CD

Ulysses_ · 02-13-2016, 04:40 PM

Thanks but there is complete blackout now at POST, no beeps, just a LED on the motherboard that is labeled DIAG_VGA. Removed the CD drive and the hard drive and it made no difference. And the cpu onboard graphics chip was used, so no graphics card to remove.

Are there people that actually repair motherboards nowadays? For significantly less than the $200 this mobo is worth brand new?

BW-userx · 02-13-2016, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Ulysses_

Thanks but there is complete blackout now at POST, no beeps, just a LED on the motherboard that is labeled DIAG_VGA. Removed the CD drive and the hard drive and it made no difference. And the cpu onboard graphics chip was used, so no graphics card to remove.

Are there people that actually repair motherboards nowadays? For significantly less than the $200 this mobo is worth brand new?

youi got any pawn shops in your area? for 200 or less you should be able to pick up a brand new used lap top maybe even use HDD for a second HDD out of your other one ...

Ulysses_ · 02-13-2016, 05:09 PM

Got a laptop, and a usb caddy for the old hard drive. Don't want to dispose the 32 GB of RAM though, or the super quiet components and extremely low consumption cpu with its onboard graphics.

jefro · 02-13-2016, 09:55 PM

Unless you have a simple solder repair then you can't easily repair this board. I used to use a huntron tracker to diag boards decades ago and before that a gizmo called an octopus on a scope.
Problem is you have to have a known good board. That still doesn't help if pal's or proms or other logic has failed.

$200 sounds like a good board.

BW-userx · 02-14-2016, 01:14 PM

yep see if you can find a board that will take your old RAM too what the heck it don't hurt to look.