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| Thread ID: 27314 | 2002-11-19 20:28:00 | Occasional boot failure | Tarrengower Kindergaten (2569) | Press F1 |
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| 99699 | 2002-11-19 20:28:00 | Hi we are a rural Kindergarten! Every now and then our administration computer mysteriously fails to start. It doesn't get past the black screens at the start. Today it crashed after it tried to boot off the CDROM (Bios setting, no CD in the drive or floppy for that matter). The error message was something like SYSTEM BOOT FAILURE PLEASE INSERT INSTALLATION DISK. After the 5th restart it started going again. We are running Windows 2000 on a stand alone computer 300 ish MHz CPU 320 MB SDRAM 10Gb HD. Does anyone have any Idea why its doing this and what we can do about it? Thanks very much - Tarrengower Kindergaten |
Tarrengower Kindergaten (2569) | ||
| 99700 | 2002-11-19 20:37:00 | solution1. Don't shut it down solution2. Replace the wee battery on the motherboard that maintains the BIOS (it will look like a hearing aid battery) this is best done by prising it out with the PC on, and leaving the PC on till the battery is replaced. Don't worry there are no dangerous voltages inside. I don't know whose idea it was to use a disposible battery to maintain bios, we have sent a search party out to find the person, not that this will help you now. solution 3. :D PANIC! |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 99701 | 2002-11-19 22:02:00 | Such a message also suggests your Hard Disk Drive may be failing to initialise, ar failing to start spinning. Please back up all information you need in the event the situation becomes permanent. The message you are seeing probably results from the system not being able to find any operating system files. It then defaults to looking for them on the CD, then the Floppy Drive. |
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