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Huh... CrashFree Bios utility seems not to work at all, and my floppy driver does not even work. It should be connected correctly, but I can't access drive.. still trying..
Ok, no progress at all. Tried using CrashFree - inserted support DVD and USB key with new Bios ROM file and afudos.exe, nothing at all. Only thing remaing is trying to use floppy, which is kinda complicated, since my only floppy drive does not even work (still talks about no disk inserted...). Isn't there any other way to get it working?
Oh yes anyway, still not sure if mobo is not damaged, I am doing this supposing that only BIOS is corrupted.
Distribution: Gentoo (desktop), Arch linux (laptop)
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It's could be CPU or motherboard now.
Try disconnect all device, leave only the CPU on the motherboard, start it up to see if you can hear some beep. If you don't, try your CPU on another machine to see whether it still work. If it still work, then your motherboard is dead.
Well, nothing happens even after disconnecting all that stuff. No beep, nothing. Unfortunately I don't have an AM3 socket motherboard in here (I am student, got about 3 computers and this NB, but those pcs are very old). Could something like that damage CPU? (hope not). Thanks for your answers. (I'll try to do that few more times, just for sure.)
As stated before in one of your threads, sometimes the motherboard-manufacturerers don't set up sane settings if you switch the OC settings to manual. So definitely, it is possible that your CPU is damaged.
Ok, thanks for your answer. Well I plan to bring mobo and/or that RAM back to seller, looks like I can't repair it at all. Thanks for your help anyway...
I would do same, but as I said, I didn't even got through scrolling options grub. It usually hanged right after scrolling options in grub, or even sooner. Thanks for you reply.
(I am running from backup pc I have made today, RAM and motherboard are still going back to seller).
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