Re: Brownz killed my media centre PC!

On 25 Apr 2009 22:33:21 GMT, "Krusty" <dontwantany@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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If you press Del at the prompt does it ender the CMOS setup screen?

No, it totally locked after that screen appeared. It's doing something
different now - bringing up the full screen logo as before for a few
seconds, then showing the usual BIOS boot screen & saying 'CMOS
checksum error - defaults loaded' under the list of drives. At the
bottom of the screen it says 'Press F1 to continue, DEL to enter SETUP'
but won't do anything else no matter what I hit.

Do you have a USB keyboard in there at the mo? If legacy USB support
was or has now been disabled in the BIOS then it might simply not
seeing your key presses.

If it's not USB (but PS2) or only has support for USB kbd / mouse and
you are hitting the prompted keys quickly enough (it's not a reaction
test as such though) then it's not sounding good.

Is there a CD/DVD drive in there, do you have any bootable media, Live
Linux or XP CD?

I've tried with & without an XP CD in the drive, but it doesn't get as
far as checking if there's anything in there.

Ok, so it's either not getting to that stage because the CD drive
isn't in the list of boot devices or it is actually busted.Is this
with *just* the CD drive connected to the system board and assuming
it's (ideally) a Master device (rather than cable select). Have you
tried the CD drive on the other connector on the system board? (Pri /
Sec)

Bit late now but did you take precautions?

Yes, I kept a pillow between my knees at all times.

Ah, you should have been fine then.

T i m
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