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Pamella
| | Posted on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 1:05 pm: | |
Hi. I hope someone can give me an idea of what is wrong. I'm having trouble booting up. This problem started about a week or two ago, so I've just been avoiding rebooting. But today my computer froze up so I had no choice.
So, when I try to boot up, 9 out of 10 times it won't boot up. I get all the beeps and all my drive lights light up but that's as far as it gets (still a black screen). But that one out of 10 times I will boot into the bios with this message:
"During your last boot up, your system hung for an improper CPU external speed setting. Your system is now working in safe mode (BUS: 100MHz, DRAM: 100MHz, PCI: 33MHz). To optimize the system performance and reliability, make sure the CPU speed conforms to the specifications of your
CPU."
Then I will tell it to load the system defaults and save changes and exit. Then, it starts the entire boot sequence again and I'm back to the 9 out of 10 times that nothing happens. Although, on a rare occasion it actually will boot up. But that rare occasion hasn't happened today.
It's an AMD 1000 MHz with 256 RAM.
Also, just a note, I've been losing time all the time and constantly have to reset my clock. I was told that means that the battery on my motherboard might need to be replaced to fix the time thingy. Would that have anything to do with my boot up problems?
Thank you to anyone who might have a clue as to what's happening here. I really appreciate your help.
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JW van Boer
| | Posted on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 2:59 pm: | |
dear Pamela,
Since a few day's i have the exact same problem, its terrible, when PC is in lucky day's it will work properly. do u have the anwser allready?
thanks, JW Holland
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Moderator (Es)
Username: Es
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Monday, June 28, 2004 - 8:20 pm: | |
The battery may be at fault, I have witnessed time being lost as well as the clock gaining time.
And in both cases the battery was at fault.
After replacing the CMOS battery you should enter the Bios and setup one item at a time from default to what options are available. For instance if you don't have anything using the com ports disable them. Same with any items you know won't be needed like onboard sound if you use a PCI sound card. |
Pamella
| | Posted on Tuesday, June 29, 2004 - 9:09 pm: | |
Hi again. Thank you all for your help. I was short on time because I use my computer for my work. I tried all the basic things; changed out cables, checked for loose boards or RAM, switched my RAM around, that kind of thing and nothing I tried worked. So I took it to the computer store and had them first switch out the motherboard battery to see if that was the problem, unfortunately, it was not. Then they ran diagnostics on it and it appears that my motherboard is fried and possibly my processor too, but they weren't too sure about that.
I'm typing on my husband's computer right now and may have to overtake it for a while to do my job until I can afford a new one, or at least some parts for the one I have.
Again, I appreciate your help though, and you can bet I've got these forums bookmarked now too!
Thanks! Pamella
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jw van boer
| | Posted on Thursday, July 1, 2004 - 8:10 am: | |
yes Pamela, I tried all the same options, my store did some extremely comments:" board, chip, power, battery, usb- connection ( disable connected machines), on-off button, time-out ( bios). Nothing of these options did help. Still, my pc does wordk, but after 5 minutes, and will never shut down. strange...kind of motivation don't u think. somebody help - us- ?
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