Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote=".::DuD3::." data-source="post: 4927602" data-attributes="member: 557279"><p>I built a computer for my friend and it has been running fine for the past 9 months. The other day however there was a surge in the house and the breakers popped. When he tried to power the computer up, it won&#039;t go past the inital stage where you can enter the bios, flash the bios, ect. I&#039;m pretty sure theres nothing wrong with the peripherals. Ram, video card, harddrive, power supply, they all seem to work fine. I&#039;ll admit I haven&#039;t tested the power supply with a DMM to see what kind of voltage I&#039;m getting on the rails, but the cpu, fans, and everything seems to power up fine. The motherboard beeps 1 time, and the code for gigabyte (model S-series GA-MA790FX-DS5) says that everything has checked out fine (peripheral wise). With that said, I cannot get it to recognize any keyboard whatsoever. USB or ps2, neither will recognize, so I can&#039;t get into the BIOS or try to flash it at least. When it boots up, sometimes it will say CHECKSUM FAILED, which I assume has something to do with the bios. I&#039;ve tried resetting the cmos by removing the battery and got nothing, and I get really do much without the keyboard. I also can&#039;t boot into a live cd, as I&#039;ve tried window&#039;s and I got nothing. Is this motherboard fried you think? I&#039;m running out of ideas.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE=".::DuD3::., post: 4927602, member: 557279"] I built a computer for my friend and it has been running fine for the past 9 months. The other day however there was a surge in the house and the breakers popped. When he tried to power the computer up, it won't go past the inital stage where you can enter the bios, flash the bios, ect. I'm pretty sure theres nothing wrong with the peripherals. Ram, video card, harddrive, power supply, they all seem to work fine. I'll admit I haven't tested the power supply with a DMM to see what kind of voltage I'm getting on the rails, but the cpu, fans, and everything seems to power up fine. The motherboard beeps 1 time, and the code for gigabyte (model S-series GA-MA790FX-DS5) says that everything has checked out fine (peripheral wise). With that said, I cannot get it to recognize any keyboard whatsoever. USB or ps2, neither will recognize, so I can't get into the BIOS or try to flash it at least. When it boots up, sometimes it will say CHECKSUM FAILED, which I assume has something to do with the bios. I've tried resetting the cmos by removing the battery and got nothing, and I get really do much without the keyboard. I also can't boot into a live cd, as I've tried window's and I got nothing. Is this motherboard fried you think? I'm running out of ideas. [/QUOTE]

Verification