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From: Foke on 13 May 2010 16:56
On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:43:41 -0700 (PDT), JoeDaltonMcGuinty
<mohammed.ouali(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>On May 12, 10:18�pm, "KCB" <bcgc...(a)hootmail.com> wrote:
>> "JoeDaltonMcGuinty" <mohammed.ou...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:e0c2b87f-ccac-41dd-8dee-7e28d5241d19(a)e35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>>
>> "misplaced the BIOS chip." �Why did you take it out of the motherboard?
>
>Ok. That's a long story. I opened the motherboard box more than 2
>years after I bought it to find out that it won't even POST.

Do you check the CMOS battery? That would be my first guess on a mobo
that's been sitting in a box for two years.
From: Paul on 13 May 2010 18:49
Foke wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2010 14:43:41 -0700 (PDT), JoeDaltonMcGuinty
> <mohammed.ouali(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On May 12, 10:18 pm, "KCB" <bcgc...(a)hootmail.com> wrote:
>>> "JoeDaltonMcGuinty" <mohammed.ou...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>>>
>>> news:e0c2b87f-ccac-41dd-8dee-7e28d5241d19(a)e35g2000yqm.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>> "misplaced the BIOS chip." Why did you take it out of the motherboard?
>> Ok. That's a long story. I opened the motherboard box more than 2
>> years after I bought it to find out that it won't even POST.
>
> Do you check the CMOS battery? That would be my first guess on a mobo
> that's been sitting in a box for two years.

Mine started OK with a dead battery. I used to run my A7N8X-E Deluxe
for a while with a flat CMOS battery, entering setting in the BIOS
each time. I was too lazy to go to the store and get a new battery.

Paul
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