Recent content by Buck041

The fact that you get nothing from the bios during boot, suggests (to me) that the issue is motherboard or cpu based. Based on all your info on previous posts, that's about the only conclusion I can draw.

You are still putting electricity to the MB.. the CPU and GPU are still connected. I'm not an computer engineer, I'm just basing my answer on the "possibility" that your CPU is toast, it's just still in the toaster.

All things considered, it's most likely a CPU thermal meltdown.

I'm assuming the ASUS logo is hard-coded during boot (pure guesswork on my part), but if you hit F2 (BIOS) or F9 (recovery) and get nothing .. then it's very possible your BIOS is corrupt, and you are going to get your wish about learning down to the chip level. In the old days, you could buy a...

There are 2 things I would change (putting priority on both) outright, if it was me: I'd go with at least a 120gig SSD as my OS drive. My current gaming pc has a 240gig, and I have 3 or 4 of my favorite games on the OS drive. I do have a 400gig as my 2nd/backup drive, but it's something to...

If you are going to go through with it (or already have), I have the Windows 98 Security Update disk from Feb 2004. It had almost every hotfix you would need, and keep in mind.. you will have a ton of problems getting online with Win98. Most of the website use Flash and Java... which will not...