ok long story
brother's having trouble with his computer, heres the story
he comes in a few days ago says his computer wont start
i go look at it, and it freezes during the memory check every time
he tells me it does this every morning because the computer is too cold
lol, i say thats wrong, it cant be too cold, especially in doors and such
so i decide maybe the bios settings got screwed up at some point
i flash them
comes back to factory defaults, same thing, freezes durning mem check
i say i'll look at it later and get back to my homework
he comes in an hour later saying that it works fine now, and it just needed to warm up, and that he was right
i say whatever and let him continue, now i doubt he went into the bios and reset them back to his specific configs, something i suppose i shoulda done, but didnt
so it works fine for a few days
and he comes in to my room last night saying its not working anymore
i go take a look at it, the bios dont even start, no vid card check, nothing
he then tells me that there was an error the last time he booted and he doesnt remember what it said, just something about the bios and an error...so he tried pressing F1 to continue, and when that didnt work he pressed DEL to enter the bios then exited without saving
now everything boots up, the hard drive spins, the cd-roms boot, the network card and such all light up
but theres no video signal and no beeps from the mobo
just a dead system
took a look around last night and the best thing i could come up with is that his BIOS/CMOS chip whatever it is could be scrambled/fried/dead, maybe repairable, maybe need a replacement....i have no idea how to go about doing such things so i was hoping from some help from you guys
or if you have any other ideas please let me know
now i have the same mobo as him, so not a problem if things like battery, ram, vid card, etc need to be swapped
brother's having trouble with his computer, heres the story
he comes in a few days ago says his computer wont start
i go look at it, and it freezes during the memory check every time
he tells me it does this every morning because the computer is too cold
lol, i say thats wrong, it cant be too cold, especially in doors and such
so i decide maybe the bios settings got screwed up at some point
i flash them
comes back to factory defaults, same thing, freezes durning mem check
i say i'll look at it later and get back to my homework
he comes in an hour later saying that it works fine now, and it just needed to warm up, and that he was right
i say whatever and let him continue, now i doubt he went into the bios and reset them back to his specific configs, something i suppose i shoulda done, but didnt
so it works fine for a few days
and he comes in to my room last night saying its not working anymore
i go take a look at it, the bios dont even start, no vid card check, nothing
he then tells me that there was an error the last time he booted and he doesnt remember what it said, just something about the bios and an error...so he tried pressing F1 to continue, and when that didnt work he pressed DEL to enter the bios then exited without saving
now everything boots up, the hard drive spins, the cd-roms boot, the network card and such all light up
but theres no video signal and no beeps from the mobo
just a dead system
took a look around last night and the best thing i could come up with is that his BIOS/CMOS chip whatever it is could be scrambled/fried/dead, maybe repairable, maybe need a replacement....i have no idea how to go about doing such things so i was hoping from some help from you guys
or if you have any other ideas please let me know
now i have the same mobo as him, so not a problem if things like battery, ram, vid card, etc need to be swapped