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by Kristoffer
Fri Jul 11, 2003 1:45 am
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: Unidentified motherboard, corrupt BIOS
Replies: 5
Views: 3999

It seems the Emergency Bootblock Bios is still active Yes, it is. Tried to Clear CMOS and set FSB to 66MHz ? > Maybe try a different stick of SDRAM No luck Plase have a look into the corners/edges of the board - sometimes there are model numbers or revision numbers printed onto it No printing of an...
by Kristoffer
Thu Jul 10, 2003 11:05 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: Unidentified motherboard, corrupt BIOS
Replies: 5
Views: 3999

I didn't find it on MSI's site, but I did remember one other resource for finding motherboards. It's actually focused more on finding one to buy but it does narrow the search down considerably.

http://www.acme.com/build_a_pc/boardfinder/
by Kristoffer
Thu Jul 10, 2003 10:24 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: Unidentified motherboard, corrupt BIOS
Replies: 5
Views: 3999

No, that's not it. This one is Micro-ATX, not full-size ATX. The board itself is green. There are 1 AGP, 3 PCI, and 1 ISA with the ISA sharing a spot with the last PCI.

I will, however, look around on MSI's site and see if any of them match visually.
by Kristoffer
Thu Jul 10, 2003 8:03 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: Unidentified motherboard, corrupt BIOS
Replies: 5
Views: 3999

Unidentified motherboard, corrupt BIOS

A customer brought in a CompUSAPC computer with a corrupt BIOS. However, I can't find ANY BIOS for this board; CompUSA's site is no help in identifying the board and the numbers from the board come up with no results when searched for in Google. If I could find the BIOS string it would be a simple m...
by Kristoffer
Thu Jul 10, 2003 7:36 pm
Forum: My motherboard is dead
Topic: MSI K7N2 Won't Boot
Replies: 8
Views: 4912

this is most likely not a problem with the BIOS but with Windows XP. That is, as long as the board is POSTing, then the problem almost certainly lies elsewhere. You might try booting from the Windows XP CD and reinstalling Windows XP. There is a way to do it, called a repair install, that will only ...