Major formatting problems!

[Ravenous85]

Ok I am having problems with my computer ever since I formatted and here is what has happened so far:

I was listening to a CD through my DVD drive and looking around in MBM 5 at the same time. Somewhere along the line of setting my settings in MBM 5 my computer froze so I pressed the restart button.
When the computer started loading up it asked me what Boot I wanted to do so I said Normal and it started going back into Windows 98 with the loading screen for about 2 seconds and then it went back into DOS and asked me to run a Regscan so I did and it said that Windows was corrupted etc.
Having lots of past experience formatting with no problems (even on this computer) I decided I'd format.:rolleyes: When I tried putting in a floppy disk to scan it and make sure it was the correct floppy disk, it said something like:
- Error, Abort, Retry, Fail......

I decided I'd reboot and see if it would do anything different but when it finished scanning the memory etc and said something like:
- CMOS Settings wrong
CMOS Memory wrong

It asked me if I wanted to apply default settings and continue so I did. I then rebooted and it gave me the same message so I went into the bios settings and noticed the numbers were 100/100 instead of 133/133 (what they were before) and it didn't give me the message anymore but now it says:

Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0.. OK

Invalid System Disk
Replace the disk and then press any key

Searching for boot record from Floppy.. not found
Searching for boot record from CDROM.. not found
Searching for boot record from SCSI.. not found
Searching for boot record from Network.. OK

Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 082)
(Copyright info)

SiS 900 PXE Boot Rom v1.03 Hook Int 18

Client Mac ADDR: 00 D0 09 EB 7D 6B Guid: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF

PXE-e51: No DHCP or proxy DHCP offers were received

Not found

Boot failure
Insert BOOT diskette in A:
Press any key when ready..

Invalid system disk... etc (same thing all over again in a loop)

I have no idea but am suspicious it has to do with my IDE cables.. possibly being in the wrong places? The computer is only about 3 days old so I hope nothing is seriously wrong. :( :eh?:

If you need to know the specs they are:
- K7S5A SiS735 motherboard
- AMD Tbird 1.4 Ghz w/ Volcano fan
- 256 DDR pc2100 ram
- TnT 2 m64

If you need any more information just let me know, and thanks ahead of time!

[Placid]

Go into the bios and check your cpu temp in there, let it stay until the temp stops going up or hits 55-60c then turn it off.
Overheating can cause such problems and is a good place to start.

[Ravenous85]

Ok while it is sitting there in that screen I wanted to know if you meant System temp or CPU temp, and in Celsius or Farhenheit?

[Placid]

Cpu temp, Celsius.

[Ravenous85]

Here is what the whole screen displays:


Vcore --- 1.792 V
Vcc2.5v --- 2.480 V
Vcc3.5v --- 3.328 V
Vcc5v --- 4.945 V
+12v --- 12.096 V
SB3v ---3.344
-12v ----12.377
SB5v ---4.945
VBAT ---3.360
System fan --- 0 RPM ( do I even have one?)
CPU fan speed --- 4900-5200 RPM
System temperature --- 28c/82f
CPU temperature --- 44c/111f

[Placid]

Ok 44c looks good, try clearing the cmos then set the bios to first boot device to floppy(probably the default but check) and put in a good boot disk and give it a try.

[Ravenous85]

What do you mean by clearing the CMOS? And is it able to wreck anything if I do anything wrong?

[Placid]

You should find directions in the manual for your board.

Usually it's a junper near the battery, unplug the power to the pc then set the jumper to the clear position for a min or two then put it back to the normal position.

No danger unless you leave the jumper in the clear position.

[Ravenous85]

Ok um is there any way I can talk to you in realtime like ICQ or MSN Messenger? I have a lot of questions about this...