Hi all, (building a new computer, long story short)
I left the clear-cmos jumper set (in the clear cmos setting) and reconnected the power and booted up my pc.
Now it won't boot up, not even POST; there's power to the fans, but the HDD, floppy or CD drives will not even spin. Did I kill my mobo or cpu?
I disconnected everything again and reconnected, nothing happens ; would leaving the clear-cmos jumpers set fry the board or cpu?
Thanks for your help!

PS: AMD Athlon 64 3200

If the HD does not spin the PSU at least has taken a hit. Some psu's just blow a fuse, but since some life comes to the board its possibly partial broken. Can you test with another PSU?

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Yes, I'll try with the one in my old PC that I tore apart to build this one.

not always..........the mainbaord sends power good signal FIRST. so if board toats the hdd and other devices wont power up. The cpu fan might twitch a sec if you lucky thats all. Test psu if you can......my guess is the board is toast.

For nexdt time PROPER way to reset bios:

1-UNPLUG pc from a.c.
2-Open case, remove batt.
3-Move jumper over clrms. Wait 5 secs. Move jumpe rback.
4-Replace batt.
5-Put case cover back on and plug pc back into a.c. outlet at wall
Turn on.

Your pc bios is now reset properly.

wayogzz, you can test the PSU in the following manner, but you need a digital multimeter. If the test is ok, then the motherboard is suspected faulty.



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Originally posted by: go_for
wayogzz, you can test the PSU in the following manner, but you need a digital multimeter. If the test is ok, then the motherboard is suspected faulty.

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That's great info; I'll go get a multimeter this weekend as it's something I'd use in several other projects.
Thanks