Hi!
I'm having a little trouble trying to "resurrect" an old desktop PC at work...
I was told that before they put it apart for some reason, it used to work just fine. The memory was taken from it so I borrowed a RAM card to test the PC. When I turned it on, Bios started OK, but it got stucked at OS boot with the blinking cursor on the top left part of the screen and nothing else happenned.
What I tried so far:
A particular thing about the BIOS setup it's that I'm not allowed to change the settings on most sections (for example o boot: legacy/UEFI, device order, etc.). I make the changes but when I hit save on the last tab and return to boot, everything goes back to the original configuration. I'm allowed only to change date and time.
So that's it. I'm guessing that the mobo it's dying... but if anyone has any suggestions I will really apreciate it.
Specs:
I'm having a little trouble trying to "resurrect" an old desktop PC at work...
I was told that before they put it apart for some reason, it used to work just fine. The memory was taken from it so I borrowed a RAM card to test the PC. When I turned it on, Bios started OK, but it got stucked at OS boot with the blinking cursor on the top left part of the screen and nothing else happenned.
What I tried so far:
- I change the HD drive.
- I tried to boot from an usb stick with different OS.
- I tried to boot from a DVD.
- I tried disconnecting everything including the frontal USB ports and afterwards trying one drive at a time in different sata ports (first de HD, then the DVD reader).
- I did a clear CMOS from the jumper and removing the battery.
A particular thing about the BIOS setup it's that I'm not allowed to change the settings on most sections (for example o boot: legacy/UEFI, device order, etc.). I make the changes but when I hit save on the last tab and return to boot, everything goes back to the original configuration. I'm allowed only to change date and time.
So that's it. I'm guessing that the mobo it's dying... but if anyone has any suggestions I will really apreciate it.
Specs:
- Mother: A55f-M4 V2.0
- PSU: mlogix dx-atx600
- CPU: AMD A4-3300
- Memory: 4096 MB DDR3
- Drive: HD WD 160 GB with Windows XP 32 bits.
- Drive: DVD r/w.
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