First post, by tenyuhuang
The title is indeed, very weird - because the issue is as well, super weird.
I have two ASUS P3V133 mobos, as well as a Pentium III 450 MHz and another in 1GHz.
Both motherboards and Pentiums worked flawlessly until I decided to tinker with some hardware; and they now share the same issue as well.
For the first P3V133, I was retarded enough to hotplug a PS/2 keyboard onto the system.
It didn't have any symptoms at first, but when I reboot the system, it stuck in a dark void.
Powering down, swapping RAMs, unplugging everything - it doesn't want to boot anymore.
The debug card didn't give anything in that situation ("----"), and there was neither beep from the speaker nor any video output (the monitor went straight asleep)...
I swapped another CPU onto the mobo, the system booted as normal, but still failed into a miserable void when rebooted as it did just now.
Plugging both CPUs onto another system, they would just boot as they did normally.
The issue was already weird enough; what added to the mystery was that if you leave either CPU alone for a few moment and replug them onto the P3V133, they would boot again (for only once), and will refuse to reboot for a second time.
So, I bought another P3V133 and got rid of the problem for a little while, until I install a PC speaker for it today.
The very same issue happened again, however, without any hotplugging.
Is this a known problem for ASUS P3V133, or could it be static damaging the motherboard?
I'm really confused right now and would be really, really grateful if there is some advice or clue.
Thanks in advance!