Thanks John. Maybe i'll try that today.
My boot up problems have been on and off for about a year and a bit, so i'm not sure. Cable, battery, HD.?? Dave On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:56 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > You shouldn't lose anything, but the first time you boot after replacing the > CMOS battery you're going to get another of those DOS screens where you have > to press f1 & go into setup. It'll detect the hardware and save the settings > when you exit. > > If the problem *IS* the CMOS battery, once you replace it, that will be the > last time you have to do that for a while unless you replace other hardware. > > From: David J Brooks >> >> Thanks John I'll try that. >> >> Side note, if i replace the Bios battery, do i lose anythin, have to >> reset anything.???? I'll get one in the am >> >> Dave >> >> On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 9:38 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> > David J Brooks >>>> >>>> >> >>>> >> Well, it looks like its time to do something about my 8 year old MDG >>>> >> P4 computer. >>>> >> >>>> >> Its been acting up again the last few weeks, not booting. It does >>>> >> after a number of reboots. I get a boot fail, system halted, or a >>>> >> full >>>> >> DOS screen with all my memory numbers and a few other things, and at >>>> >> the bottom i get press f12 to boot form network or f1 to enter set >>>> >> up. >>>> >> I enter set up, scroll over to exit and it boots. >>>> >> >>>> >> Its an old machine, slow and USB 1.1 to boot, but its calibrated well >>>> >> for my Epson 2400 prints, so i'm leaning on fixing it one more time. >>>> >> Going in Saturday for a look see. Hopefully adding a new HD and >>>> >> mapping my stuff off the old one will work. The HD was upgraded 3 >>>> >> years ago and never really worked well after. Many boot problems, but >>>> >> it would work, eventually. >>>> >> >>> >>> > >>> > It's been a while since I have had to troubleshoot a computer, but >>> > these are >>> > some things I remember. >>> > >>> > If you've got everything you need to keep from the HDD backed up onto >>> > another drive, try booting to a command prompt and run "chkdsk" to see >>> > if it >>> > reports any errors on the HDD. >>> > >>> > Or if you haven't backed up everything you need, boot it however you >>> > have to >>> > get it up and copy everything you need to keep before you run "chkdsk". >>> > "Chkdsk" shouldn't hurt anything, but why take chances. >>> > >>> > If it's a FAT32 system, try "scandisk". >>> > >>> > I'd also look to replacing the CMOS battery. It may be just losing the >>> > settings when shut down. That would account for it booting after you >>> > exit >>> > setup. >>> > >>> > If "chkdsk" reports errors, you can use it with the /f switch to "fix" >>> > errors. >>> > >>> > It may also have corrupted the boot sector on the HDD. Use "fdisk /mbr" >>> > with >>> > Windows 95, 98, 2000 or NT and "fixmbr" (have to boot from the >>> > installation >>> > CD and choose recovery) for XP or Vista. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
