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Asus mew-vm, hawk, 6540c - new
I am trying to install a new Asus mew-vm motherboard (aka Hawk and 6540C) as a replacement. It came with the "tattoo" diskette and I'm instructed to boot from the disk. I've re-installed the hardware to the best of my knowledge the same as it was when I removed it. When I boot from the disk I get no video output and it will not boot to disk. Is there some command I haven't been informed of that will allow me to force boot to disk? The board appears to be working as the fans are all working and if I install a card in it I can get power on that as well. (I removed the cards to make sure that wasn't the boot issue.) Thanks for your help, neither HP nor Asus have been.
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When installing a new motherboard, you have to be careful that it is not shorting on the case. Try removing it from the case and put it on a piece of wood or cardboard. Reset the BIOS also, to clear any spurious values that might be present.
Run the system in a bare bones environment, no floppy/hard/optical drives, only the video card. Can you see the bios screen at all?
Are you trying to use a hard disk with an operating system installed already - if so, this can be tricky. Connecting one CD drive, and a blank hard disk, and then trying your Boot Disk for the OS would be then next step.
I'm not familiar with the Tattoo disk - what does it do? Sounds like it might be a bios flash disk, or similar.
Are you trying to use a hard disk with an operating system installed already - if so, this can be tricky. Connecting one CD drive, and a blank hard disk, and then trying your Boot Disk for the OS would be then next step.
I'm not familiar with the Tattoo disk - what does it do? Sounds like it might be a bios flash disk, or similar.
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According to the files that are on the tattoo disk it appears to be a boot disk of some sort. I'm thinking most likely with the bios flash on it. I am running video/mobo/floppy only (tried both just in case). Yes the drive installed in this machine has an ops on it - it was the same drive that was with the mobo I am trying to replace so that should be ok I would think since it's the same board. Thank you all for your help, I'm really stumped.
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one last mad thing. The monitor's ok yeah?
Clear the CMOS by removing the computer power and the CMOS battery for a while, just to make sure the boot order is correct.