"Andrew" wrote in message
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On 22/09/2019 17:53, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 22/09/2019 16:36, Andrew wrote:
On 22/09/2019 14:33, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
The new PS arrived. It's not that. ;-)

Stripped the thing down and cleaned everything. The Asus board I have
is
known to have a problem with the chipset cooling, so removed that and
cleaned and applied new paste. Battery was at about 2v so replaced that
too.

It fired up and selected the BOIS page. But on configuring, saving and
exit, back to not firing up at all.

So looks like an MB failure?

I'd just buy a new motherboard, but this machine is configured for my
needs including a Serial port and not sure many new ones have this?


Going the same way as Firewire and parallel ports I'm afraid.

Hoever Lindy will do you a serial parallel card that will plug into most
motherboard slots

Latest Intel M/Bs don't have PCI slots any longer,

But most have pcie slots.

which means the cheapest combo serial/parallel cards that once could be
bought for less than £10 are obsolete

But pcie serial port cards arent.

At least you can still get combo PCI cards to provide a
serial port and parallel port though. Whether the latest
bios could cope is another matter.

Bios dont have to
OS will pick it up


Rubbish. The OS needs the bios to use the hardware

No it does not. It is free to have a driver for the hardware.