Bios Chip Replacement

1Racerdude1Racerdude Washington state
edited November 2003 in Hardware
I finally got the replacement bios chip installed and nothing.This is a 733N HP and I had a chip made for the FIC mother board to install in it,to get rid of all the HP crap.
No beeps,no video,no nothing.The case fan comes on,and the power light on the front comes on,thats all.
Do I need a floppy to boot and redo everything or go back to the HP stuff?
Is it just not recognizing the bios?

All help greatly appreciated

Comments

  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited November 2003
    Did it mention a floppy on the hp website?
  • CreepCreep Hell Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    The chip could be bad, the MoBo could have gotten fried, the CPU could have gotten it, the RAM could have got blown. If you still have the HP chip stick that on there and see if it works.
  • 1Racerdude1Racerdude Washington state
    edited November 2003
    CLUTCH

    Why should the HP website mention anything about an FIC bios chip?
    CREEP
    Why should anything be FRIED on a bios chip change.Everything was working before the change?
  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited November 2003
    haha, sorry man, I was thinking it was a Hewelt packard computer, haha I read it wrong. It was a long day at work, lol
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited November 2003
    1Racerdude, is that the board that you ripped the bios chip off of that wasn't supposed to be replaceable? If so, you might have fubarred the mobo, either when you ripped the HP bios chip off of it or you might not be making good contact with the new chip.

    If you can't easily get it running, you might want to just check the refurb section at newegg and get a replacement board; it's not like FIC's boards are in the same quality category as Abit, Asus, etc.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Um, pull and replace the CMOS\BIOS battery with the computer off AND unplugged, try and see if it powers up.

    If not, pull modem card if any, unplug power from CD-ROM, see if you get a boot. If so, shut down, put power plug back in CD-ROM, and see if it still boots. If so, you can repeat with modem card in, but that might cause you to have to reset the CMOS if tne modem got surged and died. Ditto for a network card if you are on broadband (substitute network card for modem above also and if both there as cards, do BOTH as I spoke about modem).

    Also, check video card seating, clean out any dust with cards and memory sticks out and box unplugged adn out on ground or concrete if no snow or rain on ground (be real thorough).

    Then worry about mob not working and RAM dying, etc, and check the PSU voltages at 12 and 5 volts with a VOM and make sure PSU is not partly fried. Also, check PSU switch on back if there is a red one inside a protective thing, make usre it did not get bumped to 220 by mistake-- it would happily be feeding 6 volts instead of 12 and 2.5 instead of 5, and 1.66 instead of 3.3 if that littel switch got bumped and it got confused about input voltage and got 110-120 in when expecting 230-240 in. Those are the most common triage degrade steps on a box prior to detailed debug, let us know if anything better happens after doing all that but things are still weird some way, OK(-- preferably before you try some things best guided)????

    John.
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