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alan_m wrote:
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?

Does it emit a series of beeps? The number/duration of beeps indicate
what could be wrong. Google beep codes for your motherboard.

After saving the BIOS settings, no beep at all. Out of interest I swapped
the BIOS chip from a similar but not identical broken MB I'd kept. Same
thing. Comes to the BIOS page, but then dies totally when saved.

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