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i bought a great home built machine for $500, it was a good deal, ran most games well enough for me, then the motherboard screws up. now im out $500 and i will end up selling it for $200. i could replace the motherboard but im in an eff it mood. I should just stick to Mac 100%. Guess i could buy a Powermac g4 or g5 in a few months after i buy a car. This stuff sucks. Oh well, i think it is just the way it is supposed to be, im not meant to use Windows. I try to look at it as a cleansing, lol. end rant
 
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what happened to the mobo
 
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first it was a Grub error then it wont even boot that far. i have tried to reinstall but no luck
 
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A motherboard failure can happen in any computer.
 
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shhh i still blame it on Windows, :p. (i know it can happen in any computer, it just seems that i have less luck with windows machines)
 
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MB should still be covered under manufacturer waranty if it isnt that old
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did you try to reset the bios ? The grub error is from having linux installed. As it's a bootloader. I did have the machine in a dual boot configuration. I have had 0 problems with the machine. you might try resetting the bios, pulling out the battery and moving the yellow jumper over to the right. Turn it on, it'll run for a few seconds and either shut down or start beeping.
 
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first it was a Grub error then it wont even boot that far. i have tried to reinstall but no luck


Sounds more like an HD error then the motherboard. If it was getting to GRUB, your MB was POSTing fine and then starting GRUB at which point it was erroring out. GRUB can be kind of twitchy at times, so it could have just been a problem with that (on one of my computers if I leave a usb flash drive connected, GRUB will error out on reboot).

If you tried then to install Windows, it would have overwritten the MBR and you wouldn't have access to GRUB any more (it's an OSS bootloader used by Linux and the like, and Windows doesn't check for it, just rewrites the MBR).

If you have another hard drive around I'd try putting that in and seeing if you can get it to work that way.
 
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i dont know what yellow wire you speak of, but i took the battery out and put it back in and it didnt help
 
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if its hang up at a grub error your ide cables may be backwards. trade your cd & hd connecting cables
 
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i did change the hardware boot loader when it was working enough to go into the bios, maybe i messed it up more if those cables were backwards
 
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They are yellow jumpers, they are plastic pieces almost next to the battery.
 
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it's alive!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks ghost, it worked
 

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