Trying to fix this computer for a friend, so I don't have a lot of history on it. Running a 1000 MHz Celeron with WinXP Pro op syst. I've tried booting with nothing connected but the hard drive, have reset the BIOS to defaults, have tried both IDE ports, have replaced the RAM, have been able to boot to DOS using an old Win98 boot disk (but nothing I've done in DOS has helped). Before I "assume" the mobo is shot, I want to consider all possible fixes. By the way, the computer date is 2001 but the BIOS date is 2004. Is it possible (or likely) that someone flashed the BIOS incorrectly and fried something?
2006-10-09 04:34:08 · 1 answers · asked by BC 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Watch if your comp displayes the BIOS information and then bootstraps to the harddrives.
Also put the harddisk in a different PC and see if its ok. You can use Norton Utilities to verify if the Boot sector of the HDD is ok. You can also put a working Harddisk on ur PC and confirm if its not the Harddisk trouble.
If all confirmed, My guess, the EPROM on the BIOS is gone.
Get yourself a new BIOS then it should work.
.:Fishie:.
2006-10-10 23:41:07 · answer #1 · answered by Fishie 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋