Micron PC will not boot

My back up computer, and old Micron 100 PC will not boot. The start up stops with a message that there is both a floppy disk and keyboard error. I am unable to go any further such as to the BIOS. I have replaced the floppy with a new one and the keyboard works on another computer. All of the cable and power connections appear OK. What could be the problem and what are the steps to follow to fix

 

Recheck your floppy cabling and make sure your keyboard is firmly plugged into your computer. You may also need to go into the bios if you can get there and check and or change your floppy type - eg 720 vs 1.44 vs LS120 etc.

Keep trying to boot up after a cold boot of the computer - if you can get into safe mode, delet or remove any doubled up devices that may be listed, then reboot and let Windows discover what devices to insta
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Cabling rechecked

As mentioned the connections have been checked and rechecked and the bios is inaccessible depite repeated boot attempts.

What should be the next step ??

 

Use your jumper to clear the CMOS settings and then go into BIOS and use the setup settings. Clearing CMOS will let you get into the BIOS regadless of whatever has been preventing this. As a warning however, you need to be prepared to tweak your settings after running the setup option and booting. If you don't want to mess with this, take your computer to a qualified technician.

 

Rockster2u - You are over my head with jumper to clear the CMOS. How is that done?? Could the BIOS battery have anything to do with my problem. The computer is at least 5 years old. I'm not prepared to spend more than a few $$$'s on revitalization. It is junk otherwise.

 

Blunt answer - yes it could be the battery, however these usually manifest themselves as non recognizable hard drives because the bios won't hold a drive setting with a dead battery unless the computer is plugged in and stays on.

CMOS jumper is a two pin jumper on a 3 pin plug that should be clearly labeled. Pins 1&2 are jumpered for normal operation. If you move the jumper to pins 2&3 while the machine is unplugged (failsafe is power supply disconnected from MB too) and then move the jumper back to 1&2 after 4-5 seconds, all of your setttings will be cleared. This will usually let you get into a password protected bios to reset things. You'll have to redetect the hard drive and reset everything else, but using the Bios setup default should take care of most everything for booting up. Optimizing performance will require some fine tuning.

Not trying to confuse anything - just thought my previous post might help you find a couple of potential answers.