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| Warming up Join Date: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Herts, UK
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Reputation: 570 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 8 | I've inherited a system which is not so old that it shouldn't be possible to get working, then George can take it to Uni next year (he's halfway over the Pacific as I write this - 8 months gap year in NZ!) Asus A7V333, Via KT333 chipset, CPU unknown coz I don't wish to damage it by unpinning the clasps but I think 1.6MHz, 512MB ram. It did have XP installed, but the previous owner "erased" the HD. I'm unsure what that meant - I think a format. Anyway, the BIOS shows a primary master HD OK (Maxtor 6L080J4) and secondary master (CD drive) and secondary slave (DVD drive) but despite reverting to default settings it won't read the OS disc after exiting the BIOS even thought the lights on the drive show up. When I boot up, it will set itself in safe mode because it says on previous boot the system hung for improper settings. I've set it to default BIOS settings and saved, but it always reverts to this safe mode setting, and seems to hang on exiting the BIOS. I tried removing the CMOS battery, waiting 30 mins and putting it back - no good. Any ideas what the problem might be? fiddler |
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If not, try doing this - the jumpers in all the drives are set to CS (cable select). Then connect the 80-wire cable to the drives to the board as usual. hope that helps.
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Reputation: 2958 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 65 | Okay, if the PC won't read the CD, it's likely to be a CD-ROM problem. You can confirm by replacing it with another drive and see if it reads. But if you save BIOS settings and it keeps getting reset to default settings, then it's likely the BIOS battery is bust. You will need to change it.
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Reputation: 1998 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 37 | are you trying to boot into the CD? if yes, you need to set up the boot priority.
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| Warming up Join Date: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Herts, UK
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Reputation: 570 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 8 | Hey, thanks for all the support guys. I'll post a joke to express my appreciation I tried several different boot priorities, as well as putting the XP CD-rom in the DVD drive instead of the CD drive. No joy. I'll try replacing the CMOS battery. fiddler |
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Hmm.. Can't be a reader problem then. You will have to check your CMOS battery.
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| Warming up Join Date: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Herts, UK
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Reputation: 570 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 8 | Installed a fresh battery (£6!) but no joy. Then thought it could be a driver issue, remembered I had made 6 XP recovery floppies ages ago, so ran them. Good progress. Inserted the "Recovery CD" that came with the system (Evesham Computers) which ran OK, and I split the 80GB HD into 2 partitions, but then it asked for Service Pack 1 CD-Rom, which didn't come with the computer, so it looks like I'll have to get a fresh XP CD. Anyway at least all the components seem to be running OK. Thanks for the suggestions guys. fiddler |
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Reputation: 2162 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 56 | So, your cdrom and dvdrom both cannot ready the disc? How about changing the IDE cable? ![]()
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Reputation: 2958 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 65 | Sorry to hear it wasn't the battery. Yeah, what about changing the IDE cable? I've had some CD/DVD drives "die" on me merely because of the cable. ![]()
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| Warming up Join Date: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Herts, UK
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Reputation: 570 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Rep Power: 8 | I think it's reading the drives OK guys, because the Evesham Computers XP recovery CD-rom was recognised and it ran the partitioning and format of the HD. I'm going to stop wasting time with their Tech Support and have ordered a new XP with SP2 (£66) to install - no messing about with SP1 SP1a and SP2. I'm confident this will work, and will let you know. fiddler |
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