shot BIOS?

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Hi
I have an old dell 4100 running at 867mhz. I just installed a dvd
drive. When I tried to boot it bck up, it would not go past the dell
logo, and no hard drive activity (sound). I have also tried
unplugging the dvd drive. I didnt ground myself, so possibly I fried
the motherboard (though never touched it) Thanks

 

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"acprkit" <acprkit@optonline-dot-net.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> Hi
> I have an old dell 4100 running at 867mhz. I just installed a dvd
> drive. When I tried to boot it bck up, it would not go past the dell
> logo, and no hard drive activity (sound). I have also tried
> unplugging the dvd drive. I didnt ground myself, so possibly I fried
> the motherboard (though never touched it) Thanks

It is highly impossible to fry the motherboard because you just installed a
new DVD drive. Did you check the master/slave setting of the DVD drive and
the hard drive the same channel share?