Re: Urgent! Bios Error On Windows Boot
From: CS (nomail_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/09/04
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 21:43:36 -0500
On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 19:18:56 -0400, doglover <doglover@epix.net>
wrote:
>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outdated chipset trying to run XP.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
Good decision and best of luck with your new setup.
Regards.
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