HP5800 will not boot up

[jbtrbo]

Hi...the set starts counting ram and will not go into setup.... then a blue screen with the words "Smart Card Authentication" and below "Smart Card reader not present" cannot get anywhere further and this Hp 5800 does not even have a Smart card reader....heh what the heck could it be the power supply?     Processor is warm     rams ok       all fans work    monitor fires up         all hard drives ok         not able to get into bios setup....seems like no action with hard drives     just that blue screen         could it be the mother board       can't reach my operating system so don't ask which       I wonder.thanks .*john

[jbtrbo · Accepted solution]

It was the Mother board....got one really cheap from Ebay Canada....it was lucky and perfect timing.*john