or-g
07-02-2001, 11:44 AM
Hi I have a Be6-II, PIII700, 192 megs of ram, Riva TNT.
The motherboard, cpu, and everything else worked, because I had them in my computer, and swapped them out, to upgrade. There was no powersupply in the computer for a month. It recently got put in, powered up. Then it will say that the cpu has been changed. Normal I understand, so I try to go to bios. But nothing happens. I changed keyboards, nothing happens. I tried removing ram, I doubt it's the video card, and removed everything else. actually I'm not doing the work, it's my dad. I don't think he's doing something right. But from what he's told me, it seems as though the only thing I could come up with was the bios was dead. Would you be able to even boot up the computer if the bios was dead? If you could boot, would you be able to get into bios? In some cases I don't think that the bios is bad at all. It will boot up, calculate the ram, check for ide, and then check the cpu speed.
I really really hope he didn't plug the keyboards into the wrong port. Because I would be extremely disappointed if he did that... I mean.. He's tried starting a computer before and it wouldn't power on, "Oh no.. what's wrong now" then I look at the plug for the power supply, "Dad, it's not plugged in".
Anyone know what might be causing this? Computer boots up. Video comes on. Displays speed, checks ram, checks hard drive, checks cpu. I told him to set the DIP switches for the 700, and then it says cpu unworkable? I have never seen that before. Cpu is situated correctly for it to boot. If it wasn't workable why would it be able to do calculations?
The motherboard, cpu, and everything else worked, because I had them in my computer, and swapped them out, to upgrade. There was no powersupply in the computer for a month. It recently got put in, powered up. Then it will say that the cpu has been changed. Normal I understand, so I try to go to bios. But nothing happens. I changed keyboards, nothing happens. I tried removing ram, I doubt it's the video card, and removed everything else. actually I'm not doing the work, it's my dad. I don't think he's doing something right. But from what he's told me, it seems as though the only thing I could come up with was the bios was dead. Would you be able to even boot up the computer if the bios was dead? If you could boot, would you be able to get into bios? In some cases I don't think that the bios is bad at all. It will boot up, calculate the ram, check for ide, and then check the cpu speed.
I really really hope he didn't plug the keyboards into the wrong port. Because I would be extremely disappointed if he did that... I mean.. He's tried starting a computer before and it wouldn't power on, "Oh no.. what's wrong now" then I look at the plug for the power supply, "Dad, it's not plugged in".
Anyone know what might be causing this? Computer boots up. Video comes on. Displays speed, checks ram, checks hard drive, checks cpu. I told him to set the DIP switches for the 700, and then it says cpu unworkable? I have never seen that before. Cpu is situated correctly for it to boot. If it wasn't workable why would it be able to do calculations?