Ot - computer won't boot

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 20:26:49 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>Even with a hot air rework station, its hard to change the
>motherboard caps

If I can't repair with my tools, I give it to a friend with
professional hot air equipment :). This is the last resort and always
works. The OP should be aware that unsoldering from multilayer PCBs need
to be done with care, because vertical interconnect access easily could
be damaged.

However, the issue not necessarily is that drastic as all the replies
make believe.

I would start with replacing the CMOS battery. Just replacing the
battery might not be enough, in addition it could be required to clear
the BIOS configuration by the "clear CMOS jumper". The mobo's user
manual explains how to do this.

I suspect an empty battery and/or a broken HDD or bad cable connections.
SATA cables tend to loose. IOW in addition to replacing the battery I
would unplug and then connect the SATA cables again.

Regards,
Ralf