jpsga wrote:
> "PW" <budzos DeleteThis @execpc.com> wrote in message
> news:123aiugp2jpdfdd@corp.supernews.com...
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>>The other day when I rebooted my computer it did not reboot, No fans no
>>lights or anything. I replaced the power supply and now the fans spin
>>but thats about it. At first I could not even get into the bios but after
>>I disconnected all my optical drives I was able to get into the bios. Now
>>I reinstalled my main hard drive and 1 cd rom on the main ide channel{1}
>>with the jumpers set correctly and they are seen in the bios
>>but they do not show up anywhere else so the computer will not boot from
>>the hard drive or with a bootable windows 2000pro installation cd. The
>>funny thing is when I attempt to put optical drives on ide 2 I can't
>>even get into the bios screen again,it stops right after the memory test
>>completes. Did I kill the onboard ide controller when my power supply
>>puked or could it be something else?
>>Thanks in advance. Phil
>
>
> Something went bad..
>
> I assume you unplugged the box ( thus killing the standby voltage) and
> cleared the BIOS. If it is a rev1 board you have to remove the battery. In
> the case of Rev2 you use the BIOS Clr jumper.
>
> It the BIOS does not find the operating system, it tells you that fact.
> Could be a bad board. I had one.
> JPS
I figured it out, When I moved my computer upstairs I did not install
the surge protector for my phone line, Big mistake! Somehow I received a
voltage spike thru my phone line and it killed my power supply, modem
and screwed up both my hard drives. I lost the boot sector on my main
drive and had some problems with my bios. I booted to my other bios
after removing the battery and reinstalled Windows 2000 on a different
hard drive. I was able to recover most of the important stuff from my
main hard drive and only lost 2 files on my secondary hard drive. I was
lucky this time, I would really hate to kill this motherboard, I tried
to find another one to build a system with and they are nowhere to be found.
Thanks, Phil
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