> > From: > "David J Brooks > Ok, so again today, the PC did it again. It worked fine for the first > two times, then the third hung up on startup. Just made it to the > intel splash screen. I turned it off, disconneted the power, waited > and tried it again. Still no go. I turned it off, then when i got the > dos start message hit f8. About 30-40 seconds later i get a dos screen > wanting to know how i want to boot up, bootable device, hard drive, > and something else. I hit hard drive and XP started. > > Does this give you anymore ideas what might be going on. > > If you feel its the hard drive, i quess i can get a new one installed, > and hope he can move the data over. If its the clock battery, when i > change that will i have to reset all my Bios and Cmos. > > Any ideas are appreciated.
Makes me lean more toward XP being hosed in some way. It's got something in the startup files that's corrupted. I bet the video driver is starting up in some mode not supported by the display. Every thing you describe showing on screen is plain vanilla VGA before it switches to whatever mode the video driver is set to. But, if it is the CMOS battery, you'll only have to reset it once after you replace it, and it should automatically come up into a setup screen telling you your configuration has changed. All you have to do is confirm it's found all the devices, set the hardware clock and save the configuration. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
