Abit BP6 system will not POST

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you may already know of this site:

http://www.bp6.com

BIOs trouble-shooting forum:
http://216.247.220.192/Forum/forum.asp?forum_id=4&forum_title=BIOS

I look through this forum last year when I was trying to get my BP6 box up
and going.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen B. Mehegan" <owen at nerdnetworks.org>
To: <discuss at blu.org>
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 11:55 AM
Subject: Abit BP6 system will not POST


> 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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