Posted: 9/10/2008 8:28:14 AM EDT
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I got a blue screen of death last night. Couldn't catch all of what it said, but at the bottom it said dumping cache, or memory. Now when I boot up the hard drive light doen't flash, and it won't even go the start up screen(can't even get into the bios), it just says searching for floppy media. I don't even have floppy drive. I don't have a speaker in the case, so no beeps. Also, a light stays on on the keyboard now whenthe pc is off, which never happened before. Does it sound like a fried mobo? Any help would be greatly appreciated. PC specs:Gigabyte mobo, Intel dual core 1.8ghz CPU(OC'd to 2.7ghz)w/cooling fan, 4 GB ram, BFG 640 mb video card, 80gb hard drive. Litescribe DVD burner, generic DVD drive, Antec 900 case w/ 5 fans. Running Vista business x64. |
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No go on the CMOS battery. The screen just says detecting floppy drive A media.... scanning bios image in hard drive.... scanning bios image in floppy diskette.... and just hangs there with the cursor flashing. Can someone recommend a good mobo for a socket 775 with DDR2 memory in the $125.00 range? |
Gigabytes have this feature, although I have never FUBAR'd a board enough to warrant ever seeing it. |
I think he's asking if you have one of those USB jump drive ram thingy's you put on your keychain or a necklace. |
The manual won't help you much. But you can get one on the Gigabyte website. A USB thumb drive. You cane create a bootable drive that may allow you access to reflash the BIOS. www.bootdisk.com/pendrive.htm There is no F key that gets you into the BIOS, it is the "del" key. That requires the board to POST, and it does not look like it is doing so. It needs a BIOS image to restore itself. If you need to get a floppy drive, that will be easier than a new board. |
Intel DP35DP for around $99 |
Not even blue screen. He can't even POST. He either has to restore the BIOS image, or GTFO. 
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Right, but his first issue was the blue screen. He can open hope getting his board to post will resolve that. |