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System won't post

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Hey with the main rig in my sig won't post. I have tried everything known to man except pulled the board out and put it on a cardboard box.

Here's how I got into trouble. I needed a floppy drive, which I normally don't run. The floppy I hooked up could take a power connection right side up or right side down. I honestly don't remember which way I hooked it up, but regardless the floppy started smoking. So I shut the rig down and disconnected it. Now it won't post. Like I said I tried everything in the book to get it to post. I've tried the processor in another board, it's good. I tried a different power supply. The memory is still good. The video card is still good. I've ruled out everything but the board. I even tried an over night CMOS reset.

So my question is, could that floppy really smoke my Foxconn board, and nothing else? Could the BIOS be shot? Anyone ever dealt with foxconn as far as maybe getting a new bios chip?

I'm hoping someone can relate to this. Seriously... That is the last time I hook up a floppy to any machine.
 
To me, it sounds like your shorted the motherboard somehow....some sort of metal-metal contact occurred.
 
Maybe I did, but what's weird is that the board almost acts normal, it just won't post. Like if you unplug the chord to the power supply, kill the power and hook it up later on, it starts up, shuts down and restarts on it's own.. Weird I know, but that's something it has always done. It just won't post, and I don't hear any beeps.
 
I had a problem with my MSI eclipse x58 when I went to change the IOH and ICH heat sinks and it killed my mobo, I had to RMA it since nothing worked for me.
 
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