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by may_day 1 view

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My problem: I forgot the password i set in system setup in the bios so i went on to read the manual of the motherboard to find out how to short the pins so that the password will be reset. Upon carefully reading the manual I short pins 2 & 3 for a few seconds to clear cmos, of course the power to mainboard is not connected as instructed in the manual. After that I plugged the power to the mainboard and tried to switched on my pc only to my suprise it wont show anything on the screen or boot-up, i only hear a long beep then the system will shut off the power.

By the way i have an AMD Duron 750, 128 RAM, geforce2 mx/mx400 video card, cnet pro200 PCI Lan Card, Built-in sound card AC'97 and Award BIOS.

I tried switching memory with a known good one several times already but the problem is still the same. My Motherboard is: ECS EliteGroup (K7VZA Ver 3.2e)

Please help me :-(

thank you very much

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by bchesmer

Do you recall if your MB has a BIOS setting for the Video card (PCI or AGP selection)?

If so, it may have defaulted to the other type (I don't know if you have AGP or PCI).

If this is the case with your BIOS, then you will have to have another video card to get back into the BIOS to change the setting.

by kathyjp

I agree with bchsmer, likely a video card problem. Award beep codes are almost worthless. You really need a post card to troubleshoot this. If you have a post card available, use it and go to http://www.phoenix.com/resources/postcode.pdf to decifer the code it generates. Otherwise, there should be a display switch on your motherboard, and it's setting needs to agree with what is in your BIOS settings. I know you can't see those right now, but your manual should show the different settings to choose from. If it doesn't, get the pfd manual online from http://www.ecsusa.com/downloads/manual_k7v.html . You should be able to find a setting that works with your video card or use the original card that came with it. Hope this helps.

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