Well ok guys, at my college we have acomputer repair shop where people bring in their computers and we fix them for free. well i got my first machine today, and well what can i say, its VERY sick. lol
ok, lets get to it, i beleive that it is the CMOS settings or the board.
wel, it wont boot, and i can not get inot hte bios, so from what i can gatheris this as the specs:
P2 ??mgz
10 gig hdd
pci vid card
and two sticks of pc100 ram, cant tell what the mem capacity on them are.
currently thats all we have installed, and well, i am still gettingthe eror.
I boot, and it says cmos chekcsum error, so thats fine, but, it then tels me to insert system disk, which i do, and then when it boots with it and the win98 menu pops up to start with cdrom, without cdrom, etc., i cant move to select something, so it just goes ahead, without selecting one somehow, and says it cant find the system files on the disk, and leaves me at a prompt. when i try to run fdisk, it says there is no fixed disk present, so i canhged the disk, the ide cable and same thing.
I reset the bios, removed the battery and replaced it, and well changed ram and everything.
mot of the time i geta beep error that has two beeps, but they are realy deep beeps, and soundlike "booooo baaaaaaa" in a deep tone, lol
But ya, im thinking that either the cmos is the error, or the board is fried.
well tell me what you think guys!
thanks!
ok, lets get to it, i beleive that it is the CMOS settings or the board.
wel, it wont boot, and i can not get inot hte bios, so from what i can gatheris this as the specs:
P2 ??mgz
10 gig hdd
pci vid card
and two sticks of pc100 ram, cant tell what the mem capacity on them are.
currently thats all we have installed, and well, i am still gettingthe eror.
I boot, and it says cmos chekcsum error, so thats fine, but, it then tels me to insert system disk, which i do, and then when it boots with it and the win98 menu pops up to start with cdrom, without cdrom, etc., i cant move to select something, so it just goes ahead, without selecting one somehow, and says it cant find the system files on the disk, and leaves me at a prompt. when i try to run fdisk, it says there is no fixed disk present, so i canhged the disk, the ide cable and same thing.
I reset the bios, removed the battery and replaced it, and well changed ram and everything.
mot of the time i geta beep error that has two beeps, but they are realy deep beeps, and soundlike "booooo baaaaaaa" in a deep tone, lol
But ya, im thinking that either the cmos is the error, or the board is fried.
well tell me what you think guys!
thanks!