Recent content by dasharp

I bit the bullet and reformatted one of my spare drives, after clearing the CMOS and manually resetting it (it complained about an Invalid CMOS Display Type). A clean, fresh install of XP Pro has my system back up and seemingly working fine. The Invalid CMOS Display type concerns me a...

I only have one hard drive installed. I was switching them out to try to different OSs. I can see the messages on screen as it checks the CDRom, then the HD, finds the boot partition and starts the boot, but nothing more happens, the screen doesn't clear, no more activity of any sort.

:confused: My PC that has been happily running Win XP Pro for quite some time came up with a CMOS Checksum error yesterday. I pressed F2 to continue and reset CMOS automatically. Now XP Pro won't boot. Machine completes POST fine, finds the boot sector on the hard drive, then nothing. Went in...