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Compaq presario win 98 boot problem
hello,
I have an old Compaq presario laptop which hasnt been used for some time. When booting the following shows up (after pressing f10 it tries to enter setup but then just hangs) any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks. CPU=Pentium II 300 mhz 0640K System Ram passed 0063M Extended RAM passed 0512K Cache SRAM passed Sytem Bios shadowed Video Bios Shadowed UMB upper limit segment address :E9BB Mouse initialized ATAPI CD ROM: TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD-C2102 Press (F10) to enter setup |
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If "some time" is months/years, then the battery that keeps system settings
could be fubar, laptops being as they are I have no idea where in the case it is, -- Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de spybot http://security.kolla.de AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com Etrust/vet/CA 12 Month free trial (till Feb 2005) http://www.my-etrust.com/microsoft/ Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.pandasoftware.com/ActiveScan/ Catalog of removal tools (1) http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/ Catalog of removal tools (2) http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387 Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before use Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters _ "Karmawa" wrote in message ... hello, I have an old Compaq presario laptop which hasnt been used for some time. When booting the following shows up (after pressing f10 it tries to enter setup but then just hangs) any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks. CPU=Pentium II 300 mhz 0640K System Ram passed 0063M Extended RAM passed 0512K Cache SRAM passed Sytem Bios shadowed Video Bios Shadowed UMB upper limit segment address :E9BB Mouse initialized ATAPI CD ROM: TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD-C2102 Press (F10) to enter setup |
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If you don't press F10, does it boot normally? If not, what happens?
You should only need to press F10 if you need to change the BIOS settings. I suspect that since you cannot get into the BIOS setup, you have a hardware problem. PattyL "Karmawa" wrote in message ... hello, I have an old Compaq presario laptop which hasnt been used for some time. When booting the following shows up (after pressing f10 it tries to enter setup but then just hangs) any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks. CPU=Pentium II 300 mhz 0640K System Ram passed 0063M Extended RAM passed 0512K Cache SRAM passed Sytem Bios shadowed Video Bios Shadowed UMB upper limit segment address :E9BB Mouse initialized ATAPI CD ROM: TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD-C2102 Press (F10) to enter setup |
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"Karmawa" wrote in message
... hello, I have an old Compaq presario laptop which hasnt been used for some time. When booting the following shows up (after pressing f10 it tries to enter setup but then just hangs) any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks. CPU=Pentium II 300 mhz 0640K System Ram passed 0063M Extended RAM passed 0512K Cache SRAM passed Sytem Bios shadowed Video Bios Shadowed UMB upper limit segment address :E9BB Mouse initialized ATAPI CD ROM: TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD-C2102 Press (F10) to enter setup You may have a corrupted data in the cmos ram. You may have to manually reset this. See the Compaq site for the way to do this specific to your model computer. It may be as simple as removing and reinserting the battery. The bios routine summary shows no hard disk. That may also be the problem. Some Compaq laptops keep part of the bios on a hidden partition on the hard disk. And, the problem is not specific to Windows 98. |
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Hi,
Thanks for your input the problem was rectified by removing and re-inserting the cmos battery. For others who come across this problem this page might come in handy. http://www.burabura.net/blogs/slow/archives/000672.html regards. "Lil' Dave" wrote in message ... "Karmawa" wrote in message ... hello, I have an old Compaq presario laptop which hasnt been used for some time. When booting the following shows up (after pressing f10 it tries to enter setup but then just hangs) any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks. CPU=Pentium II 300 mhz 0640K System Ram passed 0063M Extended RAM passed 0512K Cache SRAM passed Sytem Bios shadowed Video Bios Shadowed UMB upper limit segment address :E9BB Mouse initialized ATAPI CD ROM: TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD-C2102 Press (F10) to enter setup You may have a corrupted data in the cmos ram. You may have to manually reset this. See the Compaq site for the way to do this specific to your model computer. It may be as simple as removing and reinserting the battery. The bios routine summary shows no hard disk. That may also be the problem. Some Compaq laptops keep part of the bios on a hidden partition on the hard disk. And, the problem is not specific to Windows 98. |
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CMOS batteries dont recharge when power is applied to the pc, If the battery
voltage has fallen so low that it did not hold the cmos information, it should be replaced "Karmawa" wrote in message ... Hi, Thanks for your input the problem was rectified by removing and re-inserting the cmos battery. For others who come across this problem this page might come in handy. http://www.burabura.net/blogs/slow/archives/000672.html regards. "Lil' Dave" wrote in message ... "Karmawa" wrote in message ... hello, I have an old Compaq presario laptop which hasnt been used for some time. When booting the following shows up (after pressing f10 it tries to enter setup but then just hangs) any advice would be greatly appreciated thanks. CPU=Pentium II 300 mhz 0640K System Ram passed 0063M Extended RAM passed 0512K Cache SRAM passed Sytem Bios shadowed Video Bios Shadowed UMB upper limit segment address :E9BB Mouse initialized ATAPI CD ROM: TOSHIBA DVD ROM SD-C2102 Press (F10) to enter setup You may have a corrupted data in the cmos ram. You may have to manually reset this. See the Compaq site for the way to do this specific to your model computer. It may be as simple as removing and reinserting the battery. The bios routine summary shows no hard disk. That may also be the problem. Some Compaq laptops keep part of the bios on a hidden partition on the hard disk. And, the problem is not specific to Windows 98. |
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