VIA P4 wont boot (blinking cursor left top)

[dido70]

Hi,

i got the same problem as a couple of other people, i presume. I bought
a Via P4 p047 with a p4 1.7Ghz (used, i presume (on ebay)), after starting the computer, it counts the ram, identifies the cpu, and then turns to a black screen with a flashing cursor ( _ ). I loaded the defaults setting to the bios, because i got a message like "warning! cpu has been changed. go to the bios and make changes."


can someone help?

thanx

dido

[dido70]

i just took out the battery of the mainboard, and restarted. now i got an error message: "cmos checksum error-defaults loaded. warning! cpu has been changed. please re-enter cpu-settings in the cmos setup and remember to save before quit!"

what the heck should i do now? i have no idea what to enter in the cmos (i even dont know what the cmos is!

dido

[Rainbow]

Something like "Press DEL to enter SETUP" should be displayed on the screen. Do it.

[dido70]

after a couple of hours reading all the threads here, i got to the via site and flashed my bios with an update: still the same problem. i'm fed up!
this looks like a dead-end. at least, the floppy is still working.

thanks for your help though.

dido

[NickS]

Something like "Press DEL to enter SETUP" should be displayed on the screen. Do it.

Did you do that ? this is at the memory counting screen.