Re: request speculations re pc failure

good point, duh... my bad. I was working on a couple of them, and had a
brain fart.
the one in question was the 1.2 duron. sorry...

"SteveH" <steve.houghREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:VwSWm.16724$Ym4.12810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Steve wrote:
In article <hggor4$4d0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
GlowingBlueMist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...

Al-hphdx wrote:
Hi,
The PC is in the dumpster so the pressure is off. compaq 7000H
setup: P3 800, AMD duron 1.2 GHz, 3X256 PC133, 20 GB drive, XP home.
Symptom: error msg on power up, no operating system found.

what I did:
1: check bios to see if hard drive was there, sometimes it was,
sometimes it wasn't
2: tried different EIDE cables
3: tried different drives with different os on them down to win95
4: cleared cmos
5: replaced cmos battery because it measured 2.7 Volts.
6: got bios flash from mobo manu website.
7: put same on floppy disk
8: booted with win98se disk
9: couldn't flash bios, why? no hard drive found.
10: removed optical cable and used 2nd eide controller
11: put in dumpster

no matter what I tried, oh yeah, also stripped it down to only
one stick memory, and the hard drive, I could not get the system
to boot. I also could not get the bios to save the changes i made
and sometimes I was unable to make changes to the bios. So,
I thought the bios chip on the mobo was either bad, or its
information corrupted.

Did I make a wrong diagnosis? Did I miss something?

Thanks for taking the time to read the above.

Al

No where did I see a swapped power supply or checked for bulging or
leaking capacitors. Either of them can cause the symptoms you write
about.

I didn't see where he tried a new hard drive either.

More to the point, WTF is a 'P3 800, AMD duron 1.2 GHz'?

--
SteveH



.

Relevant Pages

  • Emotive text about DRI, Gary, ...
    ... Gary's invention of the BIOS thatallowed a nearly infinite variety of ... To this daythere are still people running CP/M on ... Whenyou fire up a DOS prompt on ... was consideringbuilding a floppy disk controller for my IMSAI 8080 (#7 ...
    (comp.os.cpm)
  • Re: How can I flash the Bios with out a flopy drive?
    ... I use live update and it offers me a bios upgrade that will allow faster ... Any suggestions on how to flash this BIOS. ... A floppy disk is such a useful tool to have. ... I might be tempted to make a snippity response but I ...
    (uk.comp.homebuilt)
  • Re: installing xp on a sata drive
    ... Can you give us a clue as to why a Via RAID driver is being sought? ... Is there an entry for RAID/NoRAID in the BIOS? ... take out the floppy disk. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment)
  • Re: prepare bootable system floppy disk
    ... Create a bootable system floppy disk and prepare a blank floppy disk. ... Download the BIOS package, ... Restart your system and press to enter the BIOS setup utility during ...
    (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
  • RE: WinXP boot very slow
    ... I re-installed Windows XP Pro SP2 seemingly with no problems until ... > 1) The system goes thru all the BIOS settings fine. ... > At first I thought this might be down to the absence of a floppy disk drive ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment)