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John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jay Dale [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 11:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Help -- "Bricked" PC Have you tried the old "Push the power button with it unplugged" trick? Unplug the power cord from the box, push the power button, then plug the power cord back in again and push the power button. Jay Dale I.T. Manager, 3GiG Mobile: 713.299.2541 Email: [email protected] Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and/or privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination or copying of this e-mail and attachments, if any, or the information contained herein, is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. From: Richard Stovall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Help -- "Bricked" PC New PS maybe? Or even better, a new PC. :-) On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:21 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: Our CEO brought in a couple "clunker" PCs to use as AS/400 terminals. One of them had an ATI Rage 128 video card, which the Windows 98 image did not have drivers for. I downloaded the drivers and attempted to install them, when it gave me an error that it needed Direct-X 8 or later. So, I download and install Direct-X 8.1 and reboot. There's a quick blue screen when it goes to reboot and it hangs on restarting, so I hit the power button. When I went to bring it back up, the HP (Pavilion 7900 "Tortuga") splash screen was all that came up and it was "glitchy". So, I powered down, pulled the video card and tried a different one. No luck. I even tried pulling the CMOS battery as I couldn't find a CMOS reset jumper. L Anyway, long story short. no way to even get into BIOS. Any suggestions? John-AldrichTile-Tools ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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