I have some i200mmx in a box that I can't give away. In short, such old hardware can be found for cheap and you might find a piece here or there to fix it. BUT without spare parts, you will not find the bad part. This is the way it is.
If you are in the new england area, find me and a running i200mmx is yours. This offer is only for Steve Roberts.
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I have my neighbors computer that is failing to boot past The initial American Megatrends screen. She said that she was having trouble with her dialup and somehow got into the BIOS. She changed two values from "yes" to "no" and now it won't get past the "American Megatrends TVX0619B" screen. It's a Biostar MB-8500TVX-A mother board with a Pentium 200mmx CPU. I have tried clearing the CMOS by strapping JP4 and also removed the clock chip that has the battery in it for a couple hours. Nothing seems to help. Holding keys down on the keyboard won't force a keyboard error either. I have reduced it to nothing but the video card and CPU but no Beeps. It doesn't even get to testing the memory. It acts like the BIOS is wiped. Can this happen? Is there any way to force it into setup this early on in the boot process or is it toast??
There were some thunderstorms just prior to her having this trouble.
Any help would be appreciated.
Steve Roberts

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