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Other things to try in desparation: - Try pressing the F1 key after the beeps and see if that results in any diskette activity - Check that the CMOS battery voltage is OK. Pressing the F1 key made the 2nd lot of beeps repeat. the battery is ok. i think im up for a new mobo. :( i don't know of anywh...

No i don't have any way of reprogramming. what is hot flashing??
i'm not sure what you mean by "Collected Wisdom"

Machine does not look for disk drive.

no mains power was connected when clearing the cmos.

unfortuantly this hasen't worked. i have changed the the cmos jumper and put it back and there is no difference. my system still won't boot. i have discovered that the 1st set of beeps means that the is a problem with the video card, but i have 2 vga cards and they are both working in other machines...

thanks for that.

I have done a bios update on the above mentioned mobo, but my pc will not boot. when powered up, there is 2 or 3 short beeps followed by a long one. After that nothing happens. I have heard from a friend that if i remove the bios chip from the board, that it will be reset to default, and that everyt...