Quake3World

Hi everyone,

I have a friend with an Abit AV8 and while he was moving some speakers around, one of the cables must of wrapped round his wireless antenna and pushed it out of the PCI slot, since then he hasn't been able to boot.

He will turn on his PC and get no signal to the monitor, and the speaker on the motherboard is bleeping regularly. His error code on the wee LCD on the mobo is "90"

I've gone through with him checking power connections, resetting the CMOS, and removing/replacing the CMOS battery etc but with no luck.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

Tried booting with the wireless card completely removed?

Yup, no luck

See if you can get to the BIOS with F2/DEL

If not, try popping the CMOS battery to reset the bios.

If still not, try stripping out absolutely everything including ram sticks, then try. Then put 1 ram stick back and try again.

I mentioned in my first post we have tried popping out the cmos battery, theres no signal to the monitor to get into the bios.

Reseated Ram and CPU but no luck.

Man I gotta start re-reading posts before I make another one

do you get any blinking on the keyboard's Num lock, caps lock, or scroll lock?

or do they stay Dim the whole time.

None of them light up Amidy

in this situation i would try this:

inplug/remove everything you can ( including hdd's and etc ) Then plug them back in and see if that makes a diffrence.

Also, when you have everything out, take a look at the capasiters on the mobo and see what kinda shape they are in, if they are bulging or anything that would cause a problem

if all of that dosent work, hookup a spare PSU to it and see if it will boot then.

Simple things first. Check that the vga cable didn't come loose when he was moving things around.

Hate to say it, but that's what you get for buying Abit.

Looking it up seems to suggest possibly needing a new bios chip.

zolborg wrote:Simple things first. Check that the vga cable didn't come loose when he was moving things around.

Hate to say it, but that's what you get for buying Abit.

Abit's a fine brand. They produce everything from budget boards to performance OC units.