Apokalipse
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- Melbourne, Australia
once, when I was putting in a network card, the metal bracket touched the motherboard, and it just turned itself on!
a couple of months later, that motherboard had died. I got it replaced with another one (an actual socket 370 one, so I didn't have to use the slot 1 to socket 370 converter) and it sort of half worked. I put everything together, but whenever I went to install XP, after the reboot it would keep booting to the XP disk. I took it out and every boot after that it said "OS not found" (even with the hard drive I was installing to as primary master) I could boot off a portable Linux CD, but nothing else. anyway, a couple of weeks later, that refused to even POST. I left only the basic stuff in, and I touched one of the the BIOS chips (it had 2, it was a Gigabyte Dual BIOS motherboard) and it was really hot!
so I decided that BIOS chip was dead. I took it out so it would use the other one. I touched that with my thumb, and it was so hot it literally burned my thumb!
a couple of months later, that motherboard had died. I got it replaced with another one (an actual socket 370 one, so I didn't have to use the slot 1 to socket 370 converter) and it sort of half worked. I put everything together, but whenever I went to install XP, after the reboot it would keep booting to the XP disk. I took it out and every boot after that it said "OS not found" (even with the hard drive I was installing to as primary master) I could boot off a portable Linux CD, but nothing else. anyway, a couple of weeks later, that refused to even POST. I left only the basic stuff in, and I touched one of the the BIOS chips (it had 2, it was a Gigabyte Dual BIOS motherboard) and it was really hot!
so I decided that BIOS chip was dead. I took it out so it would use the other one. I touched that with my thumb, and it was so hot it literally burned my thumb!