what motherboard in 5700T ?

"DEJ57" wrote in message
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But doesn't removing the battery, only reset the bios-settings?
Remember that the bios is totally dead - and need to be replaced.

A BIOS reset will cure some of the strangest problems. While a long shot
in
this case, it might work, and would be a simply fix compared to getting a
new
BIOS chip or systemboard. Its worth a least a try.

Cool, but is it easy to remove the battery? -(i have no special equipment).

Martin

You may not need to remove the battery to clear CMOS. Look inside the case
for a label. It might show the location of and directions for using a CMOS
clearing jumper switch. Most Compaqs have this switch to clear CMOS.
HH

"M" wrote in message
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"DEJ57" wrote in message
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But doesn't removing the battery, only reset the bios-settings?
Remember that the bios is totally dead - and need to be replaced.

A BIOS reset will cure some of the strangest problems. While a long
shot
in
this case, it might work, and would be a simply fix compared to getting
a
new
BIOS chip or systemboard. Its worth a least a try.

Cool, but is it easy to remove the battery? -(i have no special
equipment).

Martin

Two words for you....E BAY. I bet you could replace that MB for 10 or 15
bucks if you are careful with the details.


"M" wrote in message
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"DEJ57" wrote in message
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I have a compaq Presario 5700T - and my bios accidently got wiped out

Out of curiousity, how did that happen?

A bios upgrade floppy-disk were used to boot - and it asked if i really
wanted to update my bios or something like that, and then during the
upgrade
it wen't black - and now when i start it up, its all black. So i'm quite
sure the bios got "wiped" :-).

Do you know for a fact that the BIOS chip is in a socket, not soldered
on
the
systemboard?

What do you mean with that? Does it mean that it will be impossible to
change one self? - or will it maker very hard to change or something?

I do wish you luck in getting another chip, but my impression has been
that
these are as hard to find as hens teeth for Compaq PCs...

Thanks :-) - but with that remark, i guess i might as well give up...


Maybe i should just upgrade to a new computer - ...hey...lemme see... is
it
possible to change only the motherboard? - to another one that supports
the
current cpu (i think its a p3 550mhz if i remember correctly).
That way i could also avoid changing the entire case and PSU. And i also
like that the current "slow" cpu have no heat-issues like many newer one
have.....

In other words: maybe i should just find a motherboard that is in such
way -
that i ONLY need to change that, and JUST that! - will that be possible?
(i know the recovery cd won't work anymore then, but i guess its possible
to
find the drivers manually on the net :-)).

Any recommendations on other motherboards then?

(to cut it out - if i decided to buy a very new board, i would have to
change cpu too right? - and also i would maybe have to change RAM ... and
probably a few other things i haven't thought of - oh - and the
beforementioned case too probably ).


Thanks again!

Dale

Martin