Pcworkers one and all -- I need your help once again! P166, Micronics Motherboard (1977 vintage), Award Bios, 128 MB RAM,(OS Win98) I'm having increasing problems with boot-up and wonder whether my motherboard isn't on its way out. Here are some of the things that have been happening off and on over the past couple of months, and now occurring at every attempt to boot up:
Complete Memory failure on boot-up, or only half the memory (65MB) registers. I've cleaned the connectors, which did the trick for a while, but no longer. Floppy drive fail, either at boot-up or later. I've removed the drive and tested it in another machine where it works perfectly. Also tested the ribbon cable and connections. I sometimes get an "out of range" message on the monitor, or else the screen is completely blank. Even after successful boot into Win98, screen resolution and refresh rates are appalling. Various messages at boot-up such as: Hard Disk initializing, please wait a moment (then nothing happens at all) Bios ROM checksum error Even after successful boot-up, all sound is disabled. With perseverance and a lot of pushing around of connections in the box, I occasionally manage to boot my system. The case has to lie on its side, open, otherwise I have no success at all!! I don't like to leave the machine permanently switched on, as I'm out at work all day and there's no-one else at home! With my limited experience, I assume all these problems stem from faulty connections in the motherboard. Any ideas and/or suggestions from the experts?? Or should I invest in a new computer? :-( Virginia Virginia Da Costa - Thatched Cottage - Kent - UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] Net-Tamer V 1.09.2 - Test Drive ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
