Recent content by gajajakr

As soon as I get the RMA board back I'll try it, Thanks. "Patience is but a waste of time"

Thanks all, I should have been more clear on my last question. New board and HHD. Do I install OS and all other drivers(video,sound,HHD,ect) before I before I install the BIOS update for CPU? The Mobo directions tell one way, the maxtor people tell me another way, and help guides even have...

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks Next question, If the mobo supports the CPU I want to put in, how do I get it to boot so that I can install the BIOS update the CPU needs? "Patience is but a waste of time"

I couldn't get a new build to recognize the new HHD so I installed a used HHD with the OS on it. I got the system to boot originally, started to install the different drivers and did a reboot and now the system doesn't boot with the CPU in it. One thing I found out is the the Mobo doesn't...

Things are going from bad to worse...I'm visitor. Time to crash along with everything else that has. If anyone has any ideas of what just happened with the system I was working on, I would appreciate input. Good night Gary "Patience is but a waste of time"

I am back. I tried a different CPU and will start to boot. I can get into BIOS. When it tries to go into full boot I get a drive not ready, system halted. 1st boot floppy, 2nd cd-Rom, 3rd brand new harddrive. I tried a window boot disk, and can't get any farther. Tried different floppy no...

mainegeek; I don't see where this can be set by jumpers on the board. Nothing in the setup guide I got with board. Needless to say I can't get into BIOS to look at those settings. fugigoose: That's what I was kind of afraid of. All right if that's the case, next step, what processor out of the...

New 250W PS New Intel 815EPEA2 Mobo New Case Used 2-128 Mg Ram used 667 Cel CPU & Fan Used 3 1/2 floppy New 20Gig MAxtor HHD New Polaroid 24X CE-RW Used 15" monitor Used Voodoo3 2000 vid card New Mouse New Keyboard All used work. Only question is CPU came out of machine hit by lightning...

Update!! Got the machine going again. It was in the registry. Once that was replaced it booted all the way. Thanks for everyone's efforts. Merry Christmas Gary

I was given a HP Pavilion 6736, system down do to electrical storm. I want to find a site where I can find out the manual or system specs, also what is the right way to go about checking out what exactly is the problem. I want to "play" with it and learn more about computers while...

If you don't already have these site links, they may help you with your problem; http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/voodoo3/index.shtml or http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/voodoo3/index.shtml Hope this helps. Gajajakr

Update: Selected a date and it told me restore Failed. Went back in to check options and lost that date I tried to restore. Rebooted just to see what would happen and it was the same as be for, locks up in the Win98 boot window. Next? Thanks Gary

Thanks for the heads up reghakr, I'll give it a try tomorrow and see how it goes. Thanks again

Smitee: Where I'm at; 1) Scanreg/restore. Won't do get bad command or file name. 2) See ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering 4 times. Do I need All? 3) Checkpoints; try to rund and 1st 2 give the can't find message and the ASD says no current ASD critical operations failures on this machine. 4)...

Well as promised, I'm updating. I disabled the anti-virus package and that didn't help. So "smitee" your suggestion is next on my list. I'll give it a shot and let you all know what happened next. This is on one of my computers at work and hopefully I get this problem cured soon!! I...