..Not dead yet, but...
Posted: Sat Mar 30, 2002 5:38 am
I've posted this out a few places because I'm really not sure what's up here. the PC continues to boot, But I cannot get at the BIOS SETUP options. Over the course of testing, I've had degrading results to teh point that I can no longer see anything on IDE2 and the Floppy is iffy...Thats the short story, here's the unabridged version:
"Really not sure what I did this time but I think I'm screwed...
In my latest round of updates to my *other* system (deinstalled Aureal sound card, deinstalled TNT2, installed onboard sound and Hercules GF2 MX) I seem to have buggered something. Now I can't get to my BIOS setup screens!
The board is a ABIT VT6X4 w/t a PIII 550 o/c'd to 736 (well it was oc'd anyway). Now when I boot and try to get to the BIOS setup, I get a blue band at the bottom of the screen and a cursor flashing in the top corner. Funny thing was, even like that, the system booted fine...for a while. Now, I can still boot to DOS or into WIN98 SAFE mode only.
Tried: Swapping back to my old TNT2 card...same S#1T
clearing CMOS, ditto
Flashed BIOS, ditto
Now it seems my system is degenerating... I can no longer see my CD or my second HDD, but I can still get to safe mode and boot off A: and C:"
"Really not sure what I did this time but I think I'm screwed...
In my latest round of updates to my *other* system (deinstalled Aureal sound card, deinstalled TNT2, installed onboard sound and Hercules GF2 MX) I seem to have buggered something. Now I can't get to my BIOS setup screens!
The board is a ABIT VT6X4 w/t a PIII 550 o/c'd to 736 (well it was oc'd anyway). Now when I boot and try to get to the BIOS setup, I get a blue band at the bottom of the screen and a cursor flashing in the top corner. Funny thing was, even like that, the system booted fine...for a while. Now, I can still boot to DOS or into WIN98 SAFE mode only.
Tried: Swapping back to my old TNT2 card...same S#1T
clearing CMOS, ditto
Flashed BIOS, ditto
Now it seems my system is degenerating... I can no longer see my CD or my second HDD, but I can still get to safe mode and boot off A: and C:"