Re: Urgent! Bios Error On Windows Boot

From: doglover (doglover_at_epix.net)
Date: 04/08/04 

Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:18:56 -0400

On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 23:18:16 -0500, CS <nomail@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 07 Apr 2004 20:27:12 -0400, doglover <doglover@epix.net>
>wrote:
>
>>I have since taken out the motherboard to ship back to fix to the
>>people that sent me the disk for flash in first place. They claim
>>warranty and said it was the right flash and safe and good to use and
>>bench tested by their 15 year engineers in their lab abd are backed by
>>bios manufactures. They reside in Ma. They claim they can get it
>>going. However on phone support for 2 hours today they did nothing but
>>make it worse and worse on each attempt they told me to perform.
>>First I tried different bios settings and Windowes would not load or
>>install from its won XP self boot disk from Microsoft. Next it said
>>system disk error and kept getting that. if by luck and then it would
>>load the start set files and hang forever as it tried to start windows
>>to start the load.
>>
>>Then after back flashing the orginal bios saved as orginal.bin on the
>>disk they gave it rendered it totally unbootable with just constant
>>beeps. At that point he told me to unjumper the cmos battery and when
>>I pulled the jumper out the machine started but with the beeps and
>>never cleared. Weird hugh. So in desperation he got frustrated and
>>said no more phone support and would refund my disk money. And leave
>>my machine useless. He then said and gave me a RMA number to send
>>board and would fix. I feel reluctant but have no choice. Do I need to
>>send the Processor P3 with it as well as my memory to solve the
>>problem. He said only take off all the cards. I hope if fixed it id's
>>all them when I get it back. I am worried about my P# processor and
>>memory sticks though. Nick
>
>If you decide to send them the motherboard, you have to send along the
>CPU and memory. In other words, the entire board. I'm not sure I
>would do that, but it's your decision.
>
>Your board (and your machine) is going to be out of service for quite
>some time. Is it worth it? Like I stated to you before, I would buy
>a new motherboard, CPU and memory. Consider this: After they get
>through fixing your board (if they can fix it), you will still have an
>outdated chipset trying to run XP.
>
>Regards, and good luck.

I am already looking into a Motherboard and cpu and memory and
awaiting a price from a local fix me up shop in business a long time
and reputable. Nick

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