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Boot up porblem, several of them
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Posted by: Rui
So heres the story, My friend is putting together a comp and I helped him finish it off today. At first we couldnt even make it boot but after 2 or 3 hours we finally made it work. Anyways, we tried to install windows ME and found out it was the dell version and it didnt work. Now because of this it wouldnt let us install windows 95. We couldnt format either, it didnt recognize the commands. so after this we tried to hook up an old floppy drive to use a boot up disk but it wouldnt work so in the bios he set it as the primary drive. After that when we boot it up, it gave us the initiallizing drive A thing but it never actually did. Now we can't but it up at all except for the drives ans the fans, but we cant get into the bios/cmos and the monitor wont even come on. They're all brand new parts but now were getting this signal from the mother board that has to do with the real time clock.
If it werent for ME it would be working by now. what could have cause this to happen? and how can we access the bios to switch it all back?
Posted by: nocode
Clear cmos. On you motherboard, there should be a jumper near the battery that you can move over one pin for a few seconds, and then move back to clear cmos. That should get you back into Bios.
Posted by: Rui
Its wierd cause every tie one boot problem goes away we get a different one, it alternates between memory, and realtime clock.
Alright it booted up once and then we set the mother board to default settings then we went to save, pressed yes and it reset and now were at the same problem again
okay we can get into bios now but when we tried to install ME it formated it, and since then we cant install windows 95 (since Me didnt work) and it wont accept "format c:\" For some reason it wont use windows 95 as a system disk either.
seven years later windows 98 is finally installing but we're getting a checksum error in cmos and im not sure what that is. it probably has something to do with this but occasionally on boot up, like 50% it will just beep once every couple of seconds and not boot until we switch the wires like you said. so is this a setting problem in the bios?
Posted by: nocode
It could be incompatible ram.
List the specs on the motherboard and ram. If you have access to different ram, try that.
Posted by: Rui
Alright it seems to be saving the cmos now, although we didnt really do anything, just turned it off overnight. go figure.
now all we need is a compatible OS....
thanks for your help
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