Diversion
01-09-01, 12:56 PM
Thanks for the previous help about the motherboard not booting up... well it's doing it again... but this time it's a different thing...
I got it to boot up before... and since I did, I decided to boot with a DOS disk and flash upgrade the BIOS... well, during the flashing process the screen gave me two choices... F1 to reboot and F10 to exit... so I chose to exit, then I hit ALT-CTRL-DEL to reboot the computer, and now it won't reboot... no video, I get FOUR long beeps and then the system shuts itself back down again... I discharged the CMOS data with the jumper, no difference... I held the INSERT key down while booting, no difference... I did the unplug trick 5 or 6 times, no luck...
Now what the hell is wrong?!? I'm getting sick of this crap! Don't tell my CMOS is corrupt or something...
In the flash program, it just sat there.... looking like it was waiting for me to hit F1 or F10... so I hit the F10 to exit...
So i'm pretty sure it flashed the entire BIOS over and did it successfully... but obviously it didn't...
Now what do I do!?
Jay
I got it to boot up before... and since I did, I decided to boot with a DOS disk and flash upgrade the BIOS... well, during the flashing process the screen gave me two choices... F1 to reboot and F10 to exit... so I chose to exit, then I hit ALT-CTRL-DEL to reboot the computer, and now it won't reboot... no video, I get FOUR long beeps and then the system shuts itself back down again... I discharged the CMOS data with the jumper, no difference... I held the INSERT key down while booting, no difference... I did the unplug trick 5 or 6 times, no luck...
Now what the hell is wrong?!? I'm getting sick of this crap! Don't tell my CMOS is corrupt or something...
In the flash program, it just sat there.... looking like it was waiting for me to hit F1 or F10... so I hit the F10 to exit...
So i'm pretty sure it flashed the entire BIOS over and did it successfully... but obviously it didn't...
Now what do I do!?
Jay