Quote Originally Posted by aledsav1 View Post
Help just bought used p5b deluxe....havin trouble board powers up, after an initial powerup leads straight into a powerdown before a few seconds then board kicks into life...fans kick in etc though nothing seems to be going to monitor or keyboard or mouse as no lights come on on any of those items...also i was looking for the bios chip....where is it? can't see what i normally associate with bios chip being in a socket?
What Bios revision is on the board and what CPU do you have. One time (and I have had several P5B-D's) I needed to install a old CPU to boot to an updated bios. I was having the same problem you are haveing.

Just something to check out.