http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif I was putting in a second hard drive and was rebooting frequently. I may have rebooted and scrambled the bios. How does one know that it is salvageable or that the chip &/or card needs to be replaced?

The POST sequence does not appear to be reached. The fan comes on, the hardrive spins up, but there is no signal to the video, no check of the A drive for boot up, and no beep from the POST sequence. The computer light just steadily winks.

I have tried removing the jumper and power, but as I read it the only thing that is unpowerred on the AWARD 4.5 bios, biostar board M6TBA ver 1.2, is the pass word. To get a total reset do I pull the battery for 10-20 min?

I doubt that you "scrambled the BIOS"....most likely the drive you are trying ot install is not configured properly...check the jumpers on the drive that they match the position you are installing it into (if this drive is going to be the second drive on the channel it needs to be set to "slave")...also check that you haven't knocked anything loose, and make sure that the drive cables are properly connected.

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hi

Just want to clarify some facts. After u had installed a new HDD, ur pc does not perform POST. Firstly ensure ur jumpers are set correctly. Master and slave. Do not use Cable Selevt unless ur IDE cable has a special hole somewhere along the wire. And if i'm not wrong, u may need to go into ur BIOS to either set auto detect ide devices or perform HDD detection. After this if it does not work, u may want to install one HDD at a time to test ur PS can handle that much devices.

Hope this helps
Good Luck