On 23/09/2019 16:03, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Andrew wrote:
On 23/09/2019 11:19, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
It also has a DigiGram audio card that has balanced in outs as well as the
various digital options. And a video capture card. I'm rather wary of the
costs of updating all of those.

Have you tried removing both those cards, and shorting the
'reset cmos' pins, then trying to boot it again with minimal
hardware ?.

Found how to by Googling, but it implied all this does is cancel the time
and date settings. Which removing the battery does anyway. But tried it.

Same result.

Rather than going to the BIOS page, I just let it run, and it did boot
normally. Shut it down properly, then switched on again. Nothing - no beep.

I've bought a used identical MB off Ebay for not a lot, so hope that will
give me a few more years.

Just for info the current one is an Asus AN8-SLI Delux. Never got round to
using the RAID facility on it.

I'd be happy to buy a brand new one if I could be sure all my cards etc
would work with it. But not sure what to go for.

It's getting harder to find socket 939 boards these days and it'd be
pricey to upgrade, as you'd need new processor and memory as well (and
you'd have to watch out as many motherboards are dropping straight PCI
slots now).

It cost around £425 for my son's Ryzen 5 3600, MSI A470 Gaming Plus
motherboard and a pair of 8Gb DDR4 memory sticks. He only got it as it
was his 16th birthday, he'd just passed his GCSEs and I could have the
old motherboard, AMD FX8350 processor and DDR3 ram, so offsetting the
cost a bit.

Used was probably your best bet.

SteveW