system displays a bunch of binary numbers when booting.

[cybrphreak]

This is a first for me. I have an old P200 system with 96megs of Edo ram. I had 2 hard drives in it. one was a WD 2.5 gig and the other a Samsung 3.1 gig. When I built my new system, I pulled them out and tried to get them to read on my new system with is a Duron 700 and an Abit Kt7-Raid MB with 256 megs Mosel infineon. I couldn't get it to read properly, so I put them back into my old system and tried booting. didn't detect the drives. tried a few IDE cables. same. tried just the Master, same. tried an IDE cable with a single connector and pulled the Master/slave jumper out altogether and the drive detected, but when the system tries to boot, right after it shows the Ram info, beeps 2x and the screen just fills with 1 and 0's. kinda like this:

Bios Info......

Detects HD's..

Flips screen..

Shows Ram info like:
Bank1 EDO
Bank2 EDO

beep, beep

then:

101010101010110101010101011010101010101101010101010110101010
101011010101010101101010101010110101010101011010101010101101
010101010110101010101011010101010101101010101010110101010101
011010101010101101010101010110101010101011010101010101101010
101010110101010101011010101010101101010101010110101010101011
010101010101101010101010110101010101011010101010101101010101
010110101010101011010101010101101010101010110101010101011010
101010101101010101010110101010101011010101010101101010101010


and it just goes and goes. I didn't have time to properly ts the problem and I plan on pulling everything but the video card and a pair of the ram and seeing if it still happens and work from there. Just wondering if anyone has seen this before?

TIA

-Cybr

 

[Demon-Xanth]

The outcome of the RAM check?

 

[cybrphreak]

not sure.. It never did it before. It used to show the table with all of the Hardware info in it.

 

[jugornot]

I have seen this before and do not know the real solution, but have a few suggestions. Make sure all devices are reseated. Try to get into bios and reset to defaults or clear cmos. Finally if nothing else works try reflashing the bios. On my system the problem showed up after I tried oc in the bios. It crashed after being in windows for a few minutes and then on bootup it went crazy. I can hold insert on my bios to reset (temp) when failing oc but this would not work. It seems to me that somehow the bios became corrupted or the cmos but I really don't know. After trying various things it came up and I have not repeated the performance. Besides 930 is fast enough. HTH

 

[littleprince]

my friend had this problem

it was his mbr
when he uninstalled corel linux, it screwed it up
fdisk -mbr
or /mbr or something like that
hehe....
haven't formated in a while....
gd luck!

 

[cybrphreak]

Hmm.. that's odd. I pulled all the cards out except video and 2 simms. still doing the same thing. I does seem to be HD related though, because I can boot to a startup disk. does re-creating the Master boot record do anything to the data stored on the disk? I don't think it would, but I need to be absolutely certain.

TIA

Matt

 

[cybrphreak]

I just remembered something, I had this system dual booting 98 and RH Linux 6.2. The point where it starts with the 1's and 0's is right before lilo used to kick in. I just had it set to 4 secs and default to windows so my g/f didn't freak out like she did when it booted into linux If LiLo got hosed somehow, would what cause the problem? any ideas how to fix it? I'll try the fdisk /mbr and see how that works, sounds like a similar issue to littleprince's friend.

-Cybr

 

[cybrphreak]

recreating the master boot record did it. Lilo got messed up somehow.

thanks for everyone that answered.

-Cybr

 

[littleprince]

isn't that EXACTLY what i said???
my friend had the same problme....
uinstalled linux....
fdisk-mbr or whatever fixed it...
man...

i noe theres no point....
coz no one seems to listen on these forums.