Re: Urgent! Bios Error On Windows Boot
From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 04/08/04
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 18:32:04 -0500
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"doglover" <doglover@epix.net> wrote in message
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| 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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