Abit BP6 system will not POST

[dlapointe at attbi.com (David)]

Owen,

Some BP6 boards (rev 1.1 ver 0.41) have a defective power capacitor (see 
http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~doylep/linux-bp6/). Also if you go into the BIOS 
( if you can get that far) see if the  the voltages are stable (VTT should 
not fluctuate more than 0.35  -.5 V) . See 
http://bp6.gamesquad.net/Q6fix.phtml for some information.

David
On Monday 25 February 2002 11:55, you 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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 David Lapointe
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