Good morning all.
I have a local goodwill drop off box located near my home and Goodwill does not take PC's anymore becuse of enviromental issues.
So I found a PC with an Asrock p4vm800, 30gig drive, 256megs of ram, P4 2.1celeron processor and the fan.
I took the machine home & powered it up. The board turned on but no bios post & no beeps. I cleared the c-mos by removing the battery and relocating the jumpers and got the same results. I removed the memory and turned it back on and no beeps. I removed the CPU to check if any pins were damaged but they are are all intact.
I changed the power supply but to no avail.
Could the board be dead?? Anyhelp would be appreciated
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Thread: Asrock P4 Vm800
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05-31-2007, 11:45 AM #1
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05-31-2007, 02:05 PM #2
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Check the BIOS battery. It should read 3.3 volts. Anything under 2.85 is in need of replacement.
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05-31-2007, 03:54 PM #3
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Thanks, I will check that and will advise.
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05-31-2007, 04:06 PM #4
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
There is a 3volt battery on the board
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05-31-2007, 04:22 PM #5
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Is the voltage up to 3 volts? (You will need an elcheapo digital meter to check accurately.)
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05-31-2007, 04:34 PM #6
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
How do I check that, I have a meter
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05-31-2007, 04:45 PM #7
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Pop the battery out...put probes on either side.
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05-31-2007, 04:52 PM #8
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
oh ok...hold on
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05-31-2007, 05:03 PM #9
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Main Rig: EVGA 141-BL-E769-A1 LGA 1366 Intel X58 CLASSIFIED/WATERCOOLED ED. cooled by the Monster Water Cooling Setup
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05-31-2007, 05:46 PM #10
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Tested two batteries and they both came back with 3.0 reading
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05-31-2007, 06:07 PM #11
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Well, that's not the problem. Either the CPU is dead or the mobo. If you get no beeps, it's hard to sayYou can plug it back in, power it up and measure the fan header, any voltage there?
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05-31-2007, 06:12 PM #12
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
I found the reason why I'm not getting any beeps. There is no speaker connected, the connector is soldered off. I will connect the speaker and see if I get any kind of beeps.
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05-31-2007, 06:20 PM #13
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Main Rig: EVGA 141-BL-E769-A1 LGA 1366 Intel X58 CLASSIFIED/WATERCOOLED ED. cooled by the Monster Water Cooling Setup
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ASUS: 5 * BIOSTAR: 1 * CHAINTECH: 1 * EVGA: 3 * GIGABYTE: 5 * SUPER MICRO: 1 *TYAN: 2
180+ GHZ total power for PC Perspective Killer Frogs Rosetta @ Home Team as The Uncle B's!!
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05-31-2007, 06:24 PM #14
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Question...do u know if there is any hardware out there to test CPU's ??
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05-31-2007, 06:26 PM #15
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Re: Asrock P4 Vm800
Speaker is broken, whom ever had this PC put his/her finger thru the speaker. It seems they were trying to take it out and ripped the connector when they were messing with it. I guess I will have to take one of my boxes, remove the speaker and connect ot to the board and test it.
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