Bart Szyszka wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: > > > however unlikely did you try setting the date back before the year2000 > > ? one of my friend's computers had a similar problem(although not as > > severe) and when he set the clock back it was ok, i have a > > 486DX4-100(rather new ~1995) and sofar it hasnt experienced any problems. > The computer I'm having this problem on is a newer oone (about 2 years > old?) with a 233 processor so I wouldn't think Y2K affected it. And if Y2K > would do that, then why would it happen one and a half week after it hit > Jan 1st? > > > have you done anything odd to your computer before this happened? besides > > changing the date only thing i can think of is keep swapping things till > > it works..not more more anyone can do then that:) > Nope, haven't done anything to it. I can't change the date because nothing > on the screen shows up. No memory count, no Energy Star compliat logo, > no 'Press DEL to run setup' or anything like that. > > I'm trying to save some time here because I need to use the 28.8 > connection through pine (REALLY slow) so I'll answer something from a > different message. No, the floppy drive isn't being checked for at all. It > doesn't reach that stage where it's supposed to check the > floppy/harddrive/cdrom drives. Stops before then. I really think it could > be the BIOS. Can anyone confirm and offer some advice/URLs I can try?
A few weeks ago I was trying to get a motherboard to work, and I was getting pretty much the symptoms you're describing. I pulled all the expansion cards, replaced the CPU and RAM, checked and double-checked and octuplet-checked and etc the jumpers. Fortunately I had an identical motherboard so I was able to configure the two boards exactly alike, then pull the stuff (CPU, RAM) from the working board and put it on the non-working board for testing. I finally just pronounced the motherboard "dead" (whether it was the BIOS or a support chip or what, as far as I was concerned it was the m/b). I'll just shell out the $99 bucks to replace it with a FIC VA503+ (or is it 503A? I always forget until I compare them).