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bios failure?
Burt, New battery didn't help. When you talk about resetting the BIOS, what does shorting w/jumper reset? Does it clear the entire flash "ram", requiring a complete new flash of the BIOS? I've read some on this in various MOBO publications, but it isn't clear to me. I have another problem in...- biostarbill
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bios failure?
Thanks Burt, I hadn't considered the battery. Good idea! I'll try that. Bill- biostarbill
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bios failure?
I have an older PC that all of a sudden won't boot up. It never seems to start into the windows load, just displays: Award BootBlock Bios V1.0 copyright (c)2000, Award Software, Inc Bios ROM checksum error Detecting floppy drive A media insert system disk & press Enter. The first time it failed...- biostarbill
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hard drive failure??
I have a PC with a "crash" problem. The symptoms are as follows: At totally irregular intervals the screen simply freezes. This may occur in the midst of productive work. Everything stops dead with the existing image retained on the monitor, mouse pointer disappears. If screen saver is on...- biostarbill
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