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A cow orker of mine brought me his machine because he had a rapid rebooting
problem.
Upon inspection I could hear the CPU fan speeding up and slowing down, upon
further inspection the LED on the mainboard was winking in tune with the
fan.
I replaced the power supply, the LED is stable, as is the fan, but I can't
finish a boot cycle.
When I tried hitting delete to enter the BIOS I got a pretty display of
various sized, randomly place red boxes all over the display. I cleared the
CMOS using the jumper and tried rebooting.
I tried to get to the BIOS and got half of the first screen, with the cursor
in the right pane and the machine locked up. That was the last I've seen of
the BIOS. Rebooting now halts at various stages. Sometimes no video, other
times I get as far as Building DMI Pool....nothing consistent.
I pulled all the cards out, swapped the RAM, disconnected the IDE cables,
cleared the CMOS again, which gets the expected checksum error - loading
defaults message, but it still won't boot.
The floppy will whir once before it checks for IDE devices, but it will not
boot from a W98 boot disk, but the floppy light stays lit (the cable is
correct)
Also, it never displays the *Press DEL to enter setup*, and pressing DEL
does not get me to the BIOS.
Any ideas, anyone.
TIA
Chris
A cow orker of mine brought me his machine because he had a rapid rebooting
problem.
Upon inspection I could hear the CPU fan speeding up and slowing down, upon
further inspection the LED on the mainboard was winking in tune with the
fan.
I replaced the power supply, the LED is stable, as is the fan, but I can't
finish a boot cycle.
When I tried hitting delete to enter the BIOS I got a pretty display of
various sized, randomly place red boxes all over the display. I cleared the
CMOS using the jumper and tried rebooting.
I tried to get to the BIOS and got half of the first screen, with the cursor
in the right pane and the machine locked up. That was the last I've seen of
the BIOS. Rebooting now halts at various stages. Sometimes no video, other
times I get as far as Building DMI Pool....nothing consistent.
I pulled all the cards out, swapped the RAM, disconnected the IDE cables,
cleared the CMOS again, which gets the expected checksum error - loading
defaults message, but it still won't boot.
The floppy will whir once before it checks for IDE devices, but it will not
boot from a W98 boot disk, but the floppy light stays lit (the cable is
correct)
Also, it never displays the *Press DEL to enter setup*, and pressing DEL
does not get me to the BIOS.
Any ideas, anyone.
TIA
Chris