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On 23/09/2019 13:41, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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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.


Just a quick sanity check - are you testing this with a hard drive or
other boot media connected?
I've had hard drives with corrupt boot sectors cause this symptom in the
past...