Boot Problems

[geek-o-conkid]

Okay, I have an athlon 1100 mhz pc w/ 128 mb ram and a junky ati video card. Recently my computer did not work at all and always came to a screen saying, "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT" every time it restarted even during windows installation. I fixed this error last night and installed windows 95 last night, only so i can upgrade to 98. There is one other error now that happens... I boot and the first screen reading the ram and hard-disk's works find but after that screen comes another screen that says, some BIOS type of program and then tries to re-detect all of my IDE drives and for each one it say NONE. IE - PRIMARY MASTER - NONE
(if ya gotta clue lemme know cuz i don't)

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[mjc]

Well that sure sounds strange...had this machine previoulsy worked?

Some more specs are in order...mobo, other cards and any other hardware.

Are you overclocking it?


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mjc
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[geek-o-conkid]

The machine usually works great and nope i sure aren't overclocking it.

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If practice makes perfect, and if nobody is perfect, why practice?

[mjc]

Some more specs are in order...mobo, other cards and any other hardware.


Without knowing a little more about it we aren't going to be much help...if you are running the drives off a controller card and not the onboard IDE channels that could be a reason, maybe a boot sector virus...go to Bootdisk (http://www.bootdisk.com) and download two files...a bootdisk for your operating system and F-prot (an anti-virus program that fits on a floppy and operates outside of Windows...)do this on a "clean" computer (one which has been thoroughly scanned with an up to date virus scan).

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mjc
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[geek-o-conkid]

Alright I have my system working again but still raight after the first bios screen opens up the bios type program. It trys to redetect my IDE's which are ONboard. Nothings really wrong except boot time is slowed down. It keeps saying press <CTRL><H> to run bios settings but then the screen goes off and continues to boot correctly!

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If practice makes perfect, and if nobody is perfect, why practice?