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alah
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September 24, 2018, 06:46:57 pm »
Hi ALL; my P5P800-VM mother board doesn’t even run BIOS.
Should it? even if the processor is bad or missing?
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September 24, 2018, 10:53:05 pm »
No, the BIOS will not start if the processor is bad or missing.
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The BIOS is just a rom full of code and data, that code has to execute on something. You need a processor.
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Thanks, I¨ll change it.
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September 25, 2018, 08:46:12 pm »
this is the bad capacitors vintage, I would start there ()and power supply)
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