I purchased 4 computers from a friends work. They were liquidating the old PCs they had left over after upgrading some of their cubicles. The money they collected went towards the tsunami relief fund. Keeps them out of landfills too. All four have the same configuration.
PIII 800EB
256 RAM
32x CDROM
20 Gb HD
Riva TNT2 16mb (luckily it uses AGP4x for those 16mb, heh)
PCI NIC
and on-board sound.
The hard drives were all wiped. A quick trip to the bios to change the boot priority and check the settings and 3 of the 4 booted to the windows CD and installed perfectly. One however refuses to boot to the CD properly. I have checked the bios and everything is configured correctly there. It sees the hard drive and the CDROM. The boot priority is set correctly. Sometimes when booting it will see the CD, display the usual ?press any key to boot from CD? but when you press a key all you get is the blinking cursor. It locks up completely, no HD or CDROM activity.
On attempts to boot with a floppy it will boot up as it should. I start smartdrv.exe, move to the i386 folder of the CDand run winnt.exe, and get the same blinking cursor.
I fdisked the drive, and formatted it. It is working correctly. I can view CDs and change directories. Just every time I try to run the install of windows it hangs. Once, it loaded the blue screen where it supposed to copy the files?but then it hung there too before it did anything. I have tried two different CDs.
I?m currently at work, but when I get home I think I may try to find an update to the bios. It is an old Micron pc, and there aren?t that many options to begin with in the bios. It has the same version as the other 3 but I am at a loss for ideas. I?ve opened the case and checked all the cables twice. Even checking the stupid internal speaker and hard drive activity case light cables. I will re-seat the memory too. I ensured that they were pressed in all the way but I will pull them and switch slots.
Thank you for any ideas.
PIII 800EB
256 RAM
32x CDROM
20 Gb HD
Riva TNT2 16mb (luckily it uses AGP4x for those 16mb, heh)
PCI NIC
and on-board sound.
The hard drives were all wiped. A quick trip to the bios to change the boot priority and check the settings and 3 of the 4 booted to the windows CD and installed perfectly. One however refuses to boot to the CD properly. I have checked the bios and everything is configured correctly there. It sees the hard drive and the CDROM. The boot priority is set correctly. Sometimes when booting it will see the CD, display the usual ?press any key to boot from CD? but when you press a key all you get is the blinking cursor. It locks up completely, no HD or CDROM activity.
On attempts to boot with a floppy it will boot up as it should. I start smartdrv.exe, move to the i386 folder of the CDand run winnt.exe, and get the same blinking cursor.
I fdisked the drive, and formatted it. It is working correctly. I can view CDs and change directories. Just every time I try to run the install of windows it hangs. Once, it loaded the blue screen where it supposed to copy the files?but then it hung there too before it did anything. I have tried two different CDs.
I?m currently at work, but when I get home I think I may try to find an update to the bios. It is an old Micron pc, and there aren?t that many options to begin with in the bios. It has the same version as the other 3 but I am at a loss for ideas. I?ve opened the case and checked all the cables twice. Even checking the stupid internal speaker and hard drive activity case light cables. I will re-seat the memory too. I ensured that they were pressed in all the way but I will pull them and switch slots.
Thank you for any ideas.
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