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| 654195 | 2008-03-30 09:03:00 | I have an issue where my 3 year old AMD Athlon 64 3000+ pc would not boot. I immediately located my issue of PC World NZ July 2007, PC Disasters section. On reading I followed the suggestion to remove the CMOS battery for 5 minutes and bingo it booted up all ok. But on restarting Win XP it would not reboot and hung with the monitor blank. I replaced the CMOS battery with a new one and it booted fine, but again it would not restart. I also tried disconnecting the IDE feed to the Hard Drive, it detected no Hard Drive, bit would not reboot without the CMOS being reset. Thanks for any pointers to correct.:) | alwayslearning (13556) | ||
| 654196 | 2008-03-30 09:10:00 | Are you able to get into your BIOS? Sounds like your HDD is the problem. Try doing a repair from your XP CD if you have one. | ephesus (2509) | ||
| 654197 | 2008-03-30 09:18:00 | Go into the BIOS and reconfigure the settings, save the settings (change the bootdisk to the hdd) etc then, it should work | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 654198 | 2008-03-30 09:26:00 | Yes I been able to assess the Bios settings, comes with a checksum error message and I load the defaults and it boots up fine but not the next time around. I have a XP CD and will set the CD-Rom drive as the boot priority and try from there - thanks. | alwayslearning (13556) | ||
| 654199 | 2008-03-30 09:46:00 | BUT is the hdd the bootdisk (it maybe the floppy). Change the bootdisk to the hard drive Then save the settings |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 654200 | 2008-03-30 20:07:00 | [QUOTE=alwayslearning;658867 pc would not boot. PC World NZ On reading I followed the suggestion to remove the CMOS battery for 5 minutes I also tried disconnecting the IDE feed to the Hard Drive, it detected no Hard Drive, bit would not reboot without the CMOS being reset. [/QUOTE] Beats me why they suggest that for everything. You have a hardware problem. What sort will involve a bit of troubleshooting or you could just take it to a tech. What board? I'd be suspicious of that. |
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