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Well, I either farkled big time or the power supply is dead. I had removed the battery on a Tyan Trinity 400 board to clear CMOS. unfortunately, when I returned 2 hrs later I forgot to reinsert the battery before powering up. Now, even the fans don't run on the cpu or the powewr supply. have I damag...

Mahalo, I'm trying the battery removal now. We'll see what that brings in a day or 2. As to recovering the bootblock; The bios is set to boot from HHD first and I can't read the screens to get the systen to boot fron CD or floppy. Flashing the chip (which I've done before) doesn't seem Likely :(. I ...

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I'll Give the battery removal a try. I don't have an ISA video card and the Mboard has integrated video. I tried a PCI video card with no change in behavior. I'm beginning to think I'l need to find a replacement chip.

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This board only has solder points. I've tried shorting the points 3 times now and no luck.

hi, Sorry! This probably is the wrong place to post, but I didn't see a more apropriate place for this. I've got an ASUS ME-99B that boots, but the bios screen displays are corrupt and unreadable. The system actually did boot to W2K (that is before I blindly reset the bios to defaults) and the displ...