Boot Failure.....HELP !! I'm at my wits end !

[g_lamb]

I am running A Celeron 600Mhz, 256Mb (PC100)SDRAM, Gigabyte 6PMM133 Mianboard, IBM 10/100 NIC, 10Gb Seagate HDD on a very small IP Network using Win98SE. I recently introduced a Fujitsu 6.4Gb HDD to the system. The BIOS only recognised 2Gb. I have used PC Anywhere to remove partitions that were not FAT and formatted to 6.4Gb. Since then I have not been able to boot successfully. I have removed the 6.4Gb drive.

The PC was crashing just beyond the Network Login prompt or during Scandisk. I therefore removed the 10Gb HDD and installed into an older PC, P200, 32Mb EDO Ram, boots OK.

The Celeron 600 PC halts when even accessing the BIOS/CMOS, with or without HDD's installed in the PC.

NB: Motherboard has been upgraded to Gigabyte 6PMM133 from Chaintech 6BTA

[tjaymadison]

Welcome, g_lamb! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

Two suggestions to start:

Enter BIOS setup, load default options, save and exit.

Clear CMOS settings, either with a jumper or by removing backup battery.
Should be instructions in manual.


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[g_lamb]

PC won't stay alive long enough to be able to check BIOS/CMOS. Please explain what battery removal will do in this situation, apart from reset BIOS/CMOS etc