If you checked all the BIOS settings and know they are right the BIOS chip may be bad. If you have the manual for that motherboard check the where the pins go in the header where the little cables like the reset switch, hard drive LED, etc goes. I would switch the hard drive LED to the pin out for "Suspend LED". That way you know it is not some wacky power thing, the BIOS turns that light on.
PS I almost forgot. When one clears a BIOS on a ATX motherboard you need to unplug it from power (because a ATX has power even when shut off), take the battery out, and then you have to move a jumper to clear the BIOS and then put the jumper back where it was. You will have to check the manual (or look it up at the motherboard makers site) where the clear BIOS jumper is. It is usually three pins with the jumper on two of them (like 1 and 2). You move the jumper to clear the BIOS is like 2 and 3 for a few seconds and the put it back to 1 and 2.
If it is a ATX, still has power going to it just taking out the battery will not clear the BIOS.
Last edited by Jitterbug : 08-28-2002 at 08:01 AM.
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