Hi guys, please offer your insight to this strange problem
PC at hand:
Some celeron, 400ish MHz
64 mb ram in one stick
Windows 98
I am not too sure how the situation arose, the details are really vague from the owner. Either way, one morning the computer would not turn on (nothing, dead)
I was expecting dead PSU, but a hot wire showed the PSU was fully functional. Not knowing what motherboard it has (still don't, all onboard something..) I took the battery out to reset bios, put it back and still no go.
Now this is the strange part, I thought I would try the jumper right next to the battery to reset the bios, I moved it to the other prongs and ta-da the computer turned on, but it would take no directions from the power switch, pressing the power switch only reset the computer now. I thought maybe the bios was now reset, so moved the jumpers back to the original position, but now it won't go again, it will only work in the other, never been like that before, position.
So I told the owner this had to be an accepted side effect that he couldn't turn the computer on/off with the power button, it also had to have F1 pressed to continue at POST screen due to BIOS settings not being saved and defaults loaded (I guess my jumpers were bios related?).
Anyway, then the windows 98 splash screen comes up and it freezes. Nothing can avoid it. It will boot to safe mode, and I went through MSCONFIG screens but nothing sus, I tried reg check etc, but nothing. It just won't boot in to windows. I have tried re-installing windows but no luck
When I boot with step-by-step confirmation it says windows failed to load because HIMEM.sys not found, but its there, especially after the re-install and manual copying, so I'm thinking its memory related.
Opinions? Is the motherboard/memory [-peep-]?
PC at hand:
Some celeron, 400ish MHz
64 mb ram in one stick
Windows 98
I am not too sure how the situation arose, the details are really vague from the owner. Either way, one morning the computer would not turn on (nothing, dead)
I was expecting dead PSU, but a hot wire showed the PSU was fully functional. Not knowing what motherboard it has (still don't, all onboard something..) I took the battery out to reset bios, put it back and still no go.
Now this is the strange part, I thought I would try the jumper right next to the battery to reset the bios, I moved it to the other prongs and ta-da the computer turned on, but it would take no directions from the power switch, pressing the power switch only reset the computer now. I thought maybe the bios was now reset, so moved the jumpers back to the original position, but now it won't go again, it will only work in the other, never been like that before, position.
So I told the owner this had to be an accepted side effect that he couldn't turn the computer on/off with the power button, it also had to have F1 pressed to continue at POST screen due to BIOS settings not being saved and defaults loaded (I guess my jumpers were bios related?).
Anyway, then the windows 98 splash screen comes up and it freezes. Nothing can avoid it. It will boot to safe mode, and I went through MSCONFIG screens but nothing sus, I tried reg check etc, but nothing. It just won't boot in to windows. I have tried re-installing windows but no luck
When I boot with step-by-step confirmation it says windows failed to load because HIMEM.sys not found, but its there, especially after the re-install and manual copying, so I'm thinking its memory related.
Opinions? Is the motherboard/memory [-peep-]?
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