:eek: This HP computer has an ASUS (MEW-VM) motherboard with a 450 mghz CPU. I am looking for the motherboard manual and have not had any luck. The places I have looked are too many..but here are a few. HP, Asus, motherboards.org..NONE of these sites have the MEW-VM manual. I have GOOGLED it as well.

PLease point me to the right direction..

Is this it?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/manualCategory?lc=en&cc=us&product=59934

Sylvander-technically it is it. But when you click on it nothing comes up....I thank you though. I will keep trying.

I viewed the 1st manual on the Seagate HDD by just clicking on the link.
Then I downloaded it to my HDD by right-clicking and selecting "Save Target As...".
It downloaded in a second and I opened it from there.
The viewer is the "Adobe Acrobat Reader", so you need to have that installed on your PC.
There's a link for downloading the reader on the web page I linked to.
I notice the 3 documents on that page are all on the Seagate HDD.
I couldn't find a downloadable manual for the whole PC system, but this page
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?dlc=en&lc=en&product=59934&cc=us&docname=bph05150
mentions "Pavilion User's Guide (on CD)".
I wonder if that can be requested and send by the "Service and Support" department mentioned.

I appreciate the info. I guess I will try that and see what happens. Thanks for your help Sylvander..This is just one machine that I have to play with and get it running. I have many more to go..

And may you all have a happy continuence...........

mentions "Pavilion User's Guide (on CD)".
I wonder if that can be requested and send by the "Service and Support" department mentioned.
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They should be able to send it to you. is it still under warranty? 450MHz, seems pretty darn old...

Well, I have got the machine running. It is all about being persistent and working on a project effortlessly. I managed to "keep messing" with the CMOS bios settings jumpers. Of course I ran the tuff lite test on the motherboard which showed the motherboard being good. I put the Powersupply tester to the powersupply which showed being good. I did the "barebones" and worked my way up. As the matter of fact, I did the barebones three times because once I got to a certtain step it would not boot up to bios. So I started from step 1. Finally, after taking out the "battery" for a while and putting it back in I crossed my fingers and WOOLAA.. it booted up. So I put everything back in the case and fired it up back again and now I have a running machine. Persistance is the key. Thanks to everyone for your help and I hope that my experience can help others......don't give up, never give up.

Wow, I didn't know you were having a startup problem or I'd have suggested some things!
Download a copy of my diagnostic flowcharts from here
www.erniek.eclipse.co.uk/downloads/sylvanderdiags.zip
and print them to leaf through.
Or do you have these already?

Nice to hear all's well once more.
Now's the time to make backups.
Here's my saved spiel:
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MAKING BACKUPS
It all depends what software & hardware you have available to you for making backups.
I use “Simple Backup” [and now added Powerquest Drive Image making backups to a partition on the HDD] and CD-RW disks because I only have a 10 GB & 1.2 GB HDD’s and therefore only need a total of 18 CD-RW’s as follows:
A) 2 GB C: partition = two backups [which leap-frog so that the old becomes the new], each 2 CD-RW’s.
B) 1.2 GB [old HDD] D: physical drive = 1 backup of 2 CD-RW.
C) 8 GB E: partition = 1 backup of 12 CD-RW’s.

I can backup [and also restore] each partition or physical drives separately.
If/when I re-format & restore the C: drive, then all the data, like My Documents etc, moved to other partitions, remain unaffected.
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RECOVER USING BACKUPS
The easy way to recover from all software [including configuration] problems [without even having to discover the cause], is:

1) As you proceed forward in time, make backups of everything on your C: drive.
Do this at regular intervals, particularly before making software changes [un/installing programs or changing configuration] and keep a log of all this.
2) When you hit trouble caused by a bad configuration change and no hardware or software changes have been made, [use "scanreg /restore" in Win98, or a restore point in WinXP, to] restore a previous good configuration.
3) When the trouble involves more than just the configuration, and involves the files [including the configuration perhaps] but no hardware has been changed [this is important because the software must match the hardware], then:
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Re-format the C: drive and restore your latest good backup.
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The software will "jump back" to the way it was when the PC worked.
If this doesn’t fix things, then it probably is not a software problem but a hardware or BIOS problem.

It helps if you keep the C: drive "lean & mean".
I move as much as possible off the C: drive [and keep it as small as possible].
The "Windows" & "Program Files" folders account for 95% of the used space on my C: drive.
All the data that changes day by day [or are considered vital] are re-homed on another physical drive [although another partition would do].
When I "jump back" I still have up to date:
a. My Documents. [Use “TweakUI” to move their home]
b. E-mails for all identities. [use the email client to move their home]
c. Internet Explorer Favourites. [Use “TweakUI” to move their home]
d. Temporary Internet Files. [use the browser (Internet Explorer) to move them]
e. Re-home the Windows Address Book as shown here http://tinyurl.com/24q6l . Use the key “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\WAB\WAB4\Wab FileName” to specify its new address. [Its normal home address [in Win98] is C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book\(the owner name).WAB]
f. Any other storage of data files you wouldn’t want to “jump back”.

These can be backed up separately and more or less often.


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The AVG Rescue Disk is a special diskette where the most important parts of your computer’s boot up data will be saved. In this backup diskette, the contents of the Partition Table, Boot sectors and some other internal data will be saved. These areas are often targets of computer virus attacks and their damage can (and mostly will) cause the malfunction of the whole operating system – your computer cannot be started.

Repairing such destruction can be very difficult job. But if you have a backup copy, restoring the damaged areas is easy and safe.

In addition to the backup copy of the system areas there is a special AVG-SOS program stored on the rescue disk to handle the saved data.
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Hey..thanks for the valuable information. I always backup data just in case as you mentioned. It is nothing worse than to start all over from scratch. The only thing that needs to be from scratch is HOMEMADE PANCAKES!...

I am now on my next project..[machine] booted up so far and seems to be behaving.

Thanks a bunch.

I just LOVE IT when things are going smoothly. :)

Especially when there are home-made pancakes to accompany that. :D :cool: