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gateway profile2 w/ intel bp810

hello i have a profile 2 with an intel bp810 motherboard, the problem im having is the power light goes on, on the board, but i cant start the computer, any help would be great thanks dennis

do you get a bios screen,a beep, anything? this could be a bad motherboard,power supply,ram, processor, video card, need i go on? if you could be a bit more specific as to what does happen, and what happened prior to this it would help greatly to give ideas as to what is going on.

ok a LED lights up on the board indicating it has power, but when you press the power button, nothing happens, i bought these computers D.O.A. in hopes that i could fix them, or that i could put 2 together to make one, but both ahve the same problem, a repalcement board is hard to find. i know its the mothrboard causing the problem, i did with some guidness from above, shorted a resistor (surface mount) and got the board to kick on, and if hold i hold it for 4 sec the board kicks on, i think the problem is in the chip that controls on/off, i have to expirament more to see if the ide control and so are working,
dennis

being that you bought these doa, we are working totally blind, just gonna post a few things to try,
pull the board out of the case, only use ram, videocard and power supply,try to see if the bios screen boots,if not,one at a time swap ram if possible, then power supply, then video card, next would be the processor, all this is if you have compatible hardware to try on it, if at any point you get a bios screen, add components from there.
also, may want to check the cmos battery, should have about 3 volts, have seen bad batteries cause a system not to boot. can also use the cmos jumper to clear the cmos memory to see if , for example, a different stick of ram was added and the bios didnt autodetect.

i did get it to boot, by shorting a restor on the board, i was poking around with a screwdriver looking to bad solder joints and she fired, the power on switch does ntohing but using my screw driver i can boot, cpu, mem and board work. but i have no control to turn it on other thne my screwdriver
frm whative seen lots of pple have one of these dead boards, all with power light on.

http://66.216.68.88/Drivers/90-1300/BP810mbManual.pdf
gave a look at the pdf manual for the board, if it is a loose, broken solder joint, i usually use a "solder sucker" soldering iron to fix these, it is supposed to be for removing soldered pins from a pc board, but will also fit perfectly around the pins with a little solder inside if needed, most of the time just heat the solder already there and it needs no extra applied. radio shack usually has these irons pretty cheap, if you dont plan to use them alot, i bought the handle and the heating element i wanted and bought attatchment tips for it, but i use it constantly.

well, i give up trying to make this bp810 motherboard work right, ive opted for my method, (i was led to find this after some prayer for help) i stumbled across a CAP, that if i short it to ground,she.ll fire, but no bios, and to shut it off i have to unplug the p/s fo ra sec, works, but its not realy working, so then i shorted it for 4 sec and wammi it fired and beagain to boot, so i gently soldered a lead to the cap and the other leed to ground and drilled a small hole in the case to mount it and i have a workign computer, but ti doesnt shut off, lol so i wired a switch to cut the A/c and now its complete.
i paid 120 for 2 dead profile 2 computers, both celeron 433 /64 megs of ram, and both have intergrated 15" lcd that runs 1024/768 a little slow by todays standard, but plenty engough to run email for my wife, thanks dennis

I also have the same problem with BP810 MOBO. Member dcdcccdc what is the number of the capacitor that you can short out for 4 seconds and make the computer boot up? I have found several that can be shorted out to get the power supply up but the computer has an amber power light.

i will have to look for you, but i will say this, i found it out by accident, but after soldering in a wire to the cap to make a way to externaly short it, i found my cmos battery was bad, and the unit if left un pluged for a period, would loose its info, no big deal, it worked fine if after a shut down on windows, you yanked the power cord for a sec to make the p/s go off, thats how i devised to turn it off. if i left ti unplugged i'd loose my cmos settings, but it was ok with the plug in, any way i figured it was part of the failer, and accepted, but before i reassmebled it i tossed a new battery in , and guess what, the front power button now works, and it shuts its self down, it doesnt work 100% (not on light) but it does work, and my method of shorting no lonter works, lol go figure,
the moral of the story is first buy a new battery, and if that doesnt work, let me know, i have a 2nd profile here thats apart can see there the cap numebr and loaction for you.
i picked 2 of them up for 120 bucks, both will be fixed, i think i did pretty good. dennis

you know, i assume alot , which i shouldnt do, that people check the cmos battery, when they go bad sometimes short the + - together causing the bios to go crazy. it didnt even occur to me on this one, but if you look through a few of my older post, i am sure i mentioned it a few times. if you have a multimeter make sure they show atleast 2.8 volts, if they dont toss it, slap in a new one.

you are 100% percent right you did mention the battery, i personaly never saw the battery cause a no boot, i accepted the board had problems, and i was realy atempting to correct its loss of memory, lol and wami it works!
thanks again for your help, i have a 2nd profile i have to fix, ill go for the battery 1st lol
thanks dennis

I checked the CMOS battery and found that it was 0.1 volts. I replaced it and the computer booted up as it should. Thanks for the information. I learned a valuable lesson. I guess I won't need to be shorting out that CAP.

I am sure glad I found this valuable resource site.

thank known_criminal, also he helped us to find the solution, but im glad it worked for you, altho i wish we didnt have to remove 50 screws to get t0 the battery, lol
dennis

I stumbled across this thread while googling about the BP810 in a debranded Mattel Barbie PC that worked when I shoved it in the closet a year ago, but would not boot after I told my 2 1/2 year old that I was making her a computer.
Replacing the CMOS battery was something I never would have thought of. Thanks all!

-Tony

I too just pulled the ole "barbie pc" out of storage and it doesn't seem to boot. Guess I'll take a stab at the battery before anything else.

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And just so anyone else looking for this knows, installing a new battery worked like a charm. The computer booted up with no probs. :D

I have a BP810 mobo in a second hand Barbie PC and have tried to install both WinME and SuSE Linux, dual boot. Using either OS, the machine spontaneously reboots sometimes and I'm wondering if it can be fixed. I've tried a few different sticks of PC100 256MB memory with no luck stopping the problem. WinME is usable for longer time as the Linux side will trigger the reboot shortly after logging into a graphic window manager. Booting into Linux in a non-graphic session has not triggered a reboot as of yet. The system blue screens or reboots frequently under Windows as well. Additionally, the system doesn't soft reboot with WinME very well as it blue screens during restart almost always if I select logout->reboot (can't recall if its ever done soft reboot successfully). Is this a graphics bug? Do I need to run memtest for an extended period of time? Any ideas would be appreciated.










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