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Originally Posted by SirKenin
Well it's not a BIOS chip like you tried telling us. That I can tell you for sure. If it was it would be giving you a beep code:
1-1-4 (Phoenix)
9 short (Ami)
etc.
Truth is, you have no clue.
I did think it was a bad rail on the PSU, yes, but I'm not sitting over top of it trying to diagnose it either. It was perfectly logical to assume a PSU.
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With fans and other things seeming to start running and then quit there would have been just enough voltage getting to the video card itself to have even a brief look at something trying to display there. But "nothing" came up on screen at all? Besides a bios chip itself there are other things that can go bad there like diodes and capacitors. Speaking of bad caps,
http://www.badcaps.com/