I may have answered my own question. Is it because when it's booting,it's only using basic drivers? I never questioned this before. I just...
Good point. But her question is: if it won't read the CD to boot the machine,how can it read the CD to copy? Mark
My wife has an Nec computer with a restore disk that has seen better days. Due to the scratches on it ,it will not boot off the restore disk. I...
Mattman, When I tried another video card I left it in the machine while I was trying everything else,so it was in the machine when I was trying to...
OK, I installed the drive in another computer as a slave and took it to Trend Micros House Call for a virus scan with the newest scan engine. It...
Mattman, iclarius,and Rockster2u, This thread has gotten so long now some of the first info has been overlooked. Here is a recap: In my first...
I just wiped the h/d again and formatted to fat32 then installed win98. The install went by without a problem. The system restarted two times...
:mad: Thanks for the idea George. I suspected from the start it was a Windows driver problem. But that dont seem to be the case here. I just put a...
Nope!! Same thing with any power supply. I cleared the cmos again just for the heck of it(by pulling the battery for about ten minutes). I...
I have a 350 watt power supply in a new box I'm building. I'll try it and post later. Mark
Well,I tried a power supply from a HP Vectra and still the same thing. It looks like the keyboard is dead as well when the orange lite comes on....
Rockster2U,I'm going to try that sometime today. Thanks
Well,I've tried everything suggested by you guys but nothing works. I pulled one stick of ram leaving it with just one. ctrl+alt+del did nothing...
I cant get to safe mode. It goes out before windows loads. I think some memory has been added to it. I'll try pulling it when I get back from work...
It goes out and stays out Newt.
Hi all, I'm working on a friends computer. It's a Micron Millennia with XP Pro. It has a 1 gig AMD Athlon and 265 mg ram. The problem is...
Oh dont worry.Thinking about it,it is under warranty and I shouldn't touch it any more than I have to.I'll just send it back. But I wasn't afraid...
I'll find out tonite. The box I'm using now has the same mobo in it.I just go to fashion a tool to pull it out.I looks like I can do it with some...
Well Sparrow,I tried the bios shadowing right off but it made no difference.As soon as I got out of setup,it wouldn't restart. If it's a heat...
Paul I havent tried that yet but it sounds like a good idea. This isn't a high dollar case and it came with 350 watt power supply...
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