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- Mar 10, 2001
- Location
- Cleveland, TN
Ok I've put together and OLD system for my sister to use as an email machine which is all she does with a puter besides surfing a bit. Well like I said it's OLD, but not stone age.
Ok here is the system specs followed by a description of the problem.
P5I430TX Titanium IB+
300 mhz amd k6/2
16 mb pc100 sdram
540 mb quantum hdd(oldest part;compaq oem part;system bought in 95)
250w atx psu
voodoo3 3000 pci
I don't remember what OS either 98 or 95
(audio not installed at this time)
This board actually has a very nice bios lots of tweaking available.
Anyrate my problem is it's not booting, it gives no errors, it gives no POST error beeps. The Hdd shows up in the cmos menu as secondary master. after the ram count it just stops booting, but doesn't freeze up as I can wait a few minutes and hit DEL to enter the bios with no problem or I just hit the DEL key right off and enter the bios. Is it a dead hard drive? I am thinking it is since I don't hear it turning. Also why would the floppy light stay on? It's brand new... it doesn't seem to be doing anything, but the light is on.
Any ideas?
Ok here is the system specs followed by a description of the problem.
P5I430TX Titanium IB+
300 mhz amd k6/2
16 mb pc100 sdram
540 mb quantum hdd(oldest part;compaq oem part;system bought in 95)
250w atx psu
voodoo3 3000 pci
I don't remember what OS either 98 or 95
(audio not installed at this time)
This board actually has a very nice bios lots of tweaking available.
Anyrate my problem is it's not booting, it gives no errors, it gives no POST error beeps. The Hdd shows up in the cmos menu as secondary master. after the ram count it just stops booting, but doesn't freeze up as I can wait a few minutes and hit DEL to enter the bios with no problem or I just hit the DEL key right off and enter the bios. Is it a dead hard drive? I am thinking it is since I don't hear it turning. Also why would the floppy light stay on? It's brand new... it doesn't seem to be doing anything, but the light is on.
Any ideas?