So I'm an owner of a BP6 and it was in fantastic condition, with none of the original capacitors showing any signs of failure. But one day a year or so back, it failed to Post, after working fine just a few hours earlier.
So I did the usual, swapped all the components etc. etc. to no avail. So I boxed it up and thought I'd deal with it another day.
About a month back i recapped the board with Rubycon caps all of the ratings as per this site, but still to no avail. No post.
So I bought some SST BIOS chips that were of similar spec to the winbond one used on the BP6. I programmed one with the official Abit bios, and it also verified good, so I plugged it in, still not expecting much, and voila, it POST'd.
So now I've bought it back from the dead, the issue i've now found is that with a hard drive plugged in to the onboard hpt366 ide controller, if freezes on the hpt bios screen. no hard is detected. use the standard ide sockets and all is fine. Can anybody help?
So I did the usual, swapped all the components etc. etc. to no avail. So I boxed it up and thought I'd deal with it another day.
About a month back i recapped the board with Rubycon caps all of the ratings as per this site, but still to no avail. No post.
So I bought some SST BIOS chips that were of similar spec to the winbond one used on the BP6. I programmed one with the official Abit bios, and it also verified good, so I plugged it in, still not expecting much, and voila, it POST'd.
So now I've bought it back from the dead, the issue i've now found is that with a hard drive plugged in to the onboard hpt366 ide controller, if freezes on the hpt bios screen. no hard is detected. use the standard ide sockets and all is fine. Can anybody help?
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