Thanks very much for the help (hopefully you read the thanks posted to the group)(it was the hdds that were shorting or smoking) Yesterday I attached a hard drive (just a 2 gig spare from school - fan and power came on and it recognised hard drive but then came up 'CMOS Checksum error DEFAULTS LOADED' and then would not go on any further - I cant even get into setup I had cleared the CMOS as recommended earlier (Mboard manual said to move a pin and then replace which I did) I am stuck now - I haven,t a clue what the CMOS is and what I should do next - if you can help that would be great but I certainly will understand if that isnt possible Yours Ronald -- David J Nelson <dnelson444@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Hi
Check the jumper to clear CMOS. Make sure it is
in the correct position. If that isn't the problem then the motherboard is dead. (btw a 400Mhz Duron? I thought Durons were only 600MHz+ ?)
David
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Johnson"
<head_hertfordstandrews@yahoo.com> To: <suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com> Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 2:25 AM Subject: [suse-linux-uk-schools] power surge-PC not working
Dear anyone
We had an electrician in today to do kitchen stuff (well it is the holidays and we have been saving)( for ages) so electricity has been on and off most of the day (do u know where this is heading I wonder).
I noticed when the electrics where turned back on my computer came on (had surge plug connected last week) so clever me I switched off the supply to my computer (obviously after shutting it down - would I be so stupid as to not do that?)
Well actually yes I would be and am fairly stupid as I did not bother to turn off the supply to my son's computer (we are not rich - built both they are good but cheap)(didn't fit a surge plug last week - I mean why would you?)
Well actually my son's PC was good but is not so good now - it wont start up - nothing - I've put in a new psu (atx) and still no joy - when I turn on the supply to the computer nothing seems to work - although the cpu fan - a couple of times has made a very small movement- one cd drive light comes on and then goes out as do the diagnostic LEDs on the motherboard - but nothing else at all - I get no power to any drives
nothing works it seems to cut or short out in some way
Any suggestions as to how many new bits to get or what to do it's a K7T Pro (MS-6330) ATX VA mainboard with a 400 Duron.
Thanks in advance for listening/reading
Yours Ronald
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