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Abit BP6 system will not POST



I used to have a similar problem. In my case, the hard disk appeard to simply shut down. Since 
this was intermittent, I tried different things like reseating cables, replacing cables. It even 
occurred after changing motherboards and hard drives. 
Eventually, the power supply just died. I have not had the problem since. 
Power supplies can causes a lot of problems. 

On 25 Feb 2002 at 11:55, Owen B. Mehegan wrote:

> A few days ago, I woke up and found my computer frozen. I reset it, and the
> system would not come back up. The drives would spin, but the system did not
> beep and wouldn't POST. Eventually, I took out one CPU, and the box seemed
> to boot fine. Awhile later, however, it crashed again, and would not reboot.
> After a few more tries, I got it to load and run the memory test, and then
> it failed again. Sometimes the system does not even POST. Other times it
> stops running/freezes after the memory test, during the OS loading process,
> or in the BIOS settings menus - NEVER seen that happen before.
> 
> So far, I have pulled one CPU, re-seated the video card, cleared the CMOS,
> and swapped/removed RAM from the system, all without success. Up until now,
> the system has run fine, and I've made no recent changes to the hardware.
> The problem sounds like it could be heat, but even this morning, after the
> system had been off overnight, it would not even POST. Pertinent specs:
> 
> Abit BP6 motherboard
> Dual Celeron 533 processors (not overclocked)
> 2x 256M Crucial PC 133 memory
> 
> Any suggestions as to what could be causing this problem would be much
> appreciated. Thanks!
> 
> /owen
> 
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