problems big time

[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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[Paleo Pete]

Sounds a lot like a virus to me, if you have an emergency disk for your antivirus program, use it...you did have antivirus, and did make an emergency disk right? http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/eek.gif


Only other thing I can think of is give us the exact error message, not much we can do without knowing what we're dealing with...detailed syatem info might also help, and did you recently install any software?


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[AwARe]

Hello geek,

Im not 100% sure on this but something in the back of my head is telling me that 95 is going to have a big problem with your 1100mhz CPU

Have you been having problems all along?

Im not sure that the CPU issue "if it actually exists" will cause your problems (I agree with pete sounds a whole lot like some kind of virus)

But something is telling me that speed CPU is gonna make 95 freak a bit (Could be wrong)

You're installing an OS on a system that in someones wildest dreams couldnt have even been thought of when that OS was written

95 was written for 233's with 64MB of ram heh

[This message has been edited by AwARe (edited 06-10-2001).]

[BigBlue66]

Hey Howdy,

Sounds like an IDE Harddrive controller card to me. Have you recently flashed the BIOS? And do you have by chance an add-on controller card?

Usually, the message you're receiving is from just such a board, but the fact that it comes up second to your BIOS identification procedures might suggest that an old BIOS was recently upgraded and is taking over from the controller card. If you have an add-on controller card, remove it. It doesn't sound like you need it and it should do away with the funky message you're receiving.

Cheers,

Big Blue 66


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[AwARe]

Sorry was tryin to edit my last post but blue got there first http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/smile.gif

geek,

In order to get an AMD 300 to run on 95 you needed to install a patch, and you had to do your initial install with the CPU "UnderClocked". Im imagining that if it couldnt run with an AMD 300 the 1100.......well I think I made my point.

If you tried to install it without UnderClocking the CPU it would give you lots of fatal protection errors and tell you that you needed to reboot etc etc etc Most times it would just pop up a msg in dos and tell you windows needs to reboot press a key to reboot now <- something along those lines

Was a pain in the butt!!!

Good Luck!

[This message has been edited by AwARe (edited 06-10-2001).]