WGA: replace motherboard but keep my copy of XP

Thanks again, Ben.

Trying to figure what parts I need. The suspects seem to be the power supply, the motherboard, and the CPU.

Right after the lightning strike, I turned the system on, and it reported some failure in the POST and gave a choice to go into the BIOS or continue or so. I seem to recall that I was able to enter the BIOS, but I didn't know what to do there anyway. Subsequent attempts to boot gave beep codes only---nothing on the screen.

I have lightly tested the video card and drives in another computer and I think they are going to be okay. The RAM pbuttes memtest-86 in another computer.

Now I test it with all PCI cards removed, just one RAM stick and the video card.

I press the power button and I hear two quick little beeps, a pause, then six longer beeps, all the beeps together taking about three seconds.

The following page documents the POST beep codes and the diagnostic lights on the back of the motherboard:

The diagnostic lights are lit as follows: A,B,D: green C: yellow

The beep code for six beeps (or should I also count the two quick little beeps?) indicates "8042 Gate A20 cannot be toggled" and "The keyboard controller failed its test".

The lights indicate "Microprocessor has failed a BIOS test."

Any ideas about what parts are bad?

Ben Myers