Quake3World

A few days ago I was trying to get my mic working. Nothing I did helped includeing reinstalling the soundcard and reinstaling DX 9.0c. It always gave me this error that the test failed.

So I went to Microshit and looked up the problem and they directed me to regedit the values for fullduplex 3 , halfduplex 3 and mic 2 , all values that I saw was sitting at 0. So I set those values.

My computer did NOT reboot. It dont even go into bios to start boot. Just sits there with full power to the fans and flashes the drives and blankness. Nothing. Nada.

I pulled the cmos bat hopeing that that would reset the thing, but alas, the same full powerd fans and flash the drives and nothing.

I know someone out there has an idea.

Help a brother out. PLEASE

( I miss my computer)

Probably unrelated to your Mic problem unless by some oddity connecting the wire shorted your motherboard or something.

If you can't even see the BIOS POST screen after cycling the power, try reseating the RAM.

You sure you didn't kick it or something?

maybe connecting the mic loosened the sound card .
pull it out and put it back "assuming it's not onboard sound"

Pulled the soundcard out entirely and also took out each stick of ram. Takeing out the ram 1 stick at a time was my first thought, and this was all done before I posted.

Guess I forgot to mention those cause realy I knew you all would say that and thought it was kind of normal in that regard. Other than that, Im friggin stumped.



And yes I did kick it. But only after removeing ram and soundboard.

It wont even see a boot disk, but that is also redundant since it wont see bios.

Comps to old to bother getting a new mobo honestly, (4 years old).


Any other tips/tricks?

Strip out everything you can and try to get to the BIOS screen.

Either the motherboard is *fucked* or something attached to it isn't functioning correctly. So if you can't get it to boot with just mobo + PSU + CPU + HSF + 1 RAM stick + Monitor, then it's probably dead.

Also don't rule out a grounding issue with the motherboard/case...

Also sometimes removing the CMOS battery wont reset it, you have to leave the battery in, and set the CMOS reset jumper (usually closest one to the battery with 3 pins) to reset the CMOS successfully.