Re: Trouble booting now totally out of service

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:21:39 -0700, Robert Heiling wrote:

>
> System placed in service Jan 2001:
> PC-Chips M805LR motherboard with VIA KT133 chipset, Athlon 1GHz cpu,
> 512MB SDRAM, AGP video It has run with a number of HD's & OS's over the
> years including Linux, Win98 & Win2K, & with LILO and NT-loader.

Try taking out the CMOS battery for a minute then put it back in, that
will clear out the CMOS RAM. It's just a hunch but it's possible that some
parameter is in a strange state. If that doesn't work try disconnecting
the Floppy and the CDROM and see if you can boot off of the disk.

General Schvantzkoph wrote:

> On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 13:21:39 -0700, Robert Heiling wrote:
>
> >
> > System placed in service Jan 2001:
> > PC-Chips M805LR motherboard with VIA KT133 chipset, Athlon 1GHz cpu,
> > 512MB SDRAM, AGP video It has run with a number of HD's & OS's over the
> > years including Linux, Win98 & Win2K, & with LILO and NT-loader.
>
> Try taking out the CMOS battery for a minute then put it back in, that
> will clear out the CMOS RAM. It's just a hunch but it's possible that some
> parameter is in a strange state. If that doesn't work try disconnecting
> the Floppy and the CDROM and see if you can boot off of the disk.

Thanks for the response, but it's all been hashed out and the board has vented
capacitors and is toast. I've already got a new replacement sitting here ready
to install if it will handle my cpu.

Bob