PC Dummy
08-07-2001, 01:17 AM
Hello,
I'm helping my neighbor put together his first PC. Here is what we are working with:
Biostar M7VKD motherboard
1.2 GHz Athlon Cpu
IBM Deskstar ATA 66 HD
Creative Labs 52X CD rom
Creative Labs 3D Blaster Savage 4 AGP video card
Crucial 128MB PC133 Memory
Floppy Drive
When I got involved the machine would not post, I hooked up the case speaker and heard the beep code for memory failure. We removed and re-inserted the dimm, but still no post. I pulled a stick of PC100 from my machine, to test with and the computer booted.
We formated the hard drive and installed WindowsMe all went well untill he dicovered he didn't have the drivers for the video card. The machine seemed to be working fine except it would only display 16 colors. The machine went through several reboots with no problems.
Then this morning it would not boot. It goes through POST okay, but at the point where the operating system loads it hangs and you hear the hard drive making a sound like its reading the same thing over and over. This goes on for hours if you let it. Used the start up disk and it finds cd, sets up ramdrive, and gets to the point where it should say "preparing to start windows" only to hang and the hard drive making its odd sound.
After checking all the cable connections, and Bios settings, and finding nothing unusual. I decided to put another hard drive in and use a Win98SE boot disk. I had the same results except this time it just hangs with a cursor. I've been searching the biostar site, and AMD but cant seem to find anything relevant to this problem any ideas?
By the way the hard drives both show up correctly in the Bios auto detect feature.
http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif
I'm helping my neighbor put together his first PC. Here is what we are working with:
Biostar M7VKD motherboard
1.2 GHz Athlon Cpu
IBM Deskstar ATA 66 HD
Creative Labs 52X CD rom
Creative Labs 3D Blaster Savage 4 AGP video card
Crucial 128MB PC133 Memory
Floppy Drive
When I got involved the machine would not post, I hooked up the case speaker and heard the beep code for memory failure. We removed and re-inserted the dimm, but still no post. I pulled a stick of PC100 from my machine, to test with and the computer booted.
We formated the hard drive and installed WindowsMe all went well untill he dicovered he didn't have the drivers for the video card. The machine seemed to be working fine except it would only display 16 colors. The machine went through several reboots with no problems.
Then this morning it would not boot. It goes through POST okay, but at the point where the operating system loads it hangs and you hear the hard drive making a sound like its reading the same thing over and over. This goes on for hours if you let it. Used the start up disk and it finds cd, sets up ramdrive, and gets to the point where it should say "preparing to start windows" only to hang and the hard drive making its odd sound.
After checking all the cable connections, and Bios settings, and finding nothing unusual. I decided to put another hard drive in and use a Win98SE boot disk. I had the same results except this time it just hangs with a cursor. I've been searching the biostar site, and AMD but cant seem to find anything relevant to this problem any ideas?
By the way the hard drives both show up correctly in the Bios auto detect feature.
http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif