Another suggestion - if it has a floppy drive and is a win 9x machine, try using your boot disk. I'm
thinking he may have got something stuck in there (so check it before trying boot disk) and the
machine is trying to boot from A:\ ? It's just a thought and might make no difference...

Al Thompson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Jones"
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] No Bios?


> I would look through the case and just make sure he didn't knock anything
> loose or maybe remove a jumper from the MB or loosen the battery.  if
> there's no beeps then it's harder to tell.  Check the RAM and all the cables
> for proper connection and make sure there's nothing else laying around in
> there that might look bent or broken off.  Then go poke out the eye of his
> Tickle Me Elmo doll.. :)
>
> Dave Jones

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "MICHELE SAYER"
> Subject: [PCBUILD] No Bios?
>
>
> I wonder if anyone can help me with my problem.
> I made a computer for my son which has been working perfectly well. The last
> time it was used was yesterday. Sometime between yesterday and today, one of
> my precious children poked a ballpoint pen into the system (I stupidly left
> an opening at the front of the system)
> My son didn't realise the pen had been put there (I found it lying across
> the hard drive), and turned the computer on, then complained it wasn't
> working.
> I finally found the pen, and have opened it up to make sure nothing else has
> been put inside, but when I turn the power on, I get nothing, not even a
> display. The computer doesn't sound quite right now either.
> The pen is a plastic one with no metal parts, and so I'm not sure if it
> might have done any damage by me restarting over and over before I had
> realised something had been put there.
> I've left the casing off now, and the system unplugged, just in case there
> may be a static problem (I'm clutching at straws here), but can anyone else
> come up with any suggestions.
> Could it be that there is a problem with the graphics card?
> I've checked all the connections, and they're fine.
> The monitor is fine.
> When I start the computer, it sounds as though it's starting up, but it's
> not making quite the right sounds, but I get the clicking sound  like it
> usually makes. It sounds as though there's a humming noise in the
> background. It sounds different to how it did yesterday.
> If anyone has got any suggestions, thanx in advance. I've got one 10yr old
> boy here with very red eyes.
> M.Sayer

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