[code][color purple]NO BOOT for150 seconds[/code]

[RustyDWO]

HELP PLEASE,

Since a friend of mine tried to play a music-cd (downloaded from the internet) in my machine it just refuses to boot when powered on.
With the attemp to play that CD it already went wrong because the player would not start completely. The program started (? The window opened) but did not start to produce any sound.
Since then the whole PC refuses to start it seems.
It take 150 seconds at the moment to start the boot. And then it start by trying the CDrom player a few time and then it boots like nothing is wrong.

I checked all internal disk cables and it can't be the battery.
I did a ad-ware check and registry clean-up but those should not have any effect at primairy boot-up (memory count). Right?
My only idea, at first, was the BIOS.
However I can't find anything strange here.


Any suggestion is appreciated as long as it's not about restart with FDISK or re-install.
btw I'm running W98lite version.


Marc

 

[RustyDWO]

Win98user,
I didn't come across a faulty battery since the DOS period and I do remember that you had at least set the date and time to continue. Is this different when using W98?

PSU: I checked the 12 and 5 volt used by the drives. Are there any other voltages used on the motherboard?
I saw a plug with some 10+ wires mainly black.

Marc

 

[Win98User]

Yes it is different with W98.

Yes there are other voltages on the motherboard to power items such as;
CPU(depends on type), Memory (depends on type) etc.

Regards.

 

[RustyDWO]

To All,

Its getting dark in Europe and I'm leaving the office untill friday.
Every body thanks so far.
I will investigate the power supply some more.
If any of you have more ideas just post them.

Hopefully this problem can be solved.

Marc

 

[RustyDWO]

To all,

Meanwhile I checked on PSunit and battery voltage which both seems OK.
However replacing the battery I faced the problem that my bios was replaced with default and was very much diffent then before. I had some prints but not from the chipset and tried yesterday afternoon and evening to get the machine working again.
Without succes!
I have to find the documentation now and see if I can find the settings I need and/or a newer version of the BIOS.

Marc