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Name: renz
Date: August 30, 2004 at 03:28:19 Pacific
Subject: did not display cmos
OS: win98se
CPU/Ram: PIII 850MHz/256MB

Comment:

when i boot my PC it boot normally but no display during dettecting the IDE 0/1 master/slave,but not totally black its display only the information about the BIOS,motherboard,and CPU and it will not proceed to load the OS, when i press the *del* to get into the cmos, also the cmos display nothing,. please somebody can help me this problem, before my pc worked fine. my PC specification:PIII 850MHz/256MB RAM, 40GB IBM hdd,OS: win98SE

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Response Number 1

Name: ranchhand
Date: August 30, 2004 at 05:04:16 Pacific
Subject: did not display cmos

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Hi Renz,
Well, from what you post the BIOS will not display. That is about as low-level problem as it gets. The puzzling thing is that evidently it detects the BIOS, mobo and CPU, but will not boot, and will not enter the BIOS.
You didn't say, but does the BIOS load/detect the mouse and keyboard when you boot? It should say, "mouse detected, keyboard detected" or words to that effect.
Make sure your mouse and keyboard are plugged in properly. Then try switching your keyboard-if it went bad the computer will do what your problem is, but ususally it gives you a warning message in the black screen.
Then try replacing the BIOS battery-they don't cost much so if that is not the problem you aren't wasting much money.
I would say that your harddrive went bad, but you are not getting a "cannot find master boot record" message. The big killer is that you cannot post into the BIOS. That is bad, and that is why your system cannot boot.
If after all that still no joy, the only conclusion I can reach is that your mainboard, probably the BIOS, went bad. It's hard for me to believe that, but it does happen and you have an old unit. Better start thinking about a new computer.

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Response Number 2

Name: ham30
Date: August 30, 2004 at 10:13:19 Pacific
Subject: did not display cmos

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If and when you get desperate, disconnect all the drives and pull all the cards except the video card and RAM. If you still cannot get into the Bios, try a different video card and RAM.

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Response Number 3

Name: renz
Date: August 30, 2004 at 17:22:52 Pacific
Subject: did not display cmos

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thanks all for the help, but i already did that all and nothing is happen,before the problem occur i install win88se and it works fine but when i restart the system, thats the time goes bad.... but i suspect the bios is intruded with the virus.. i guess i dont know.. am i right, is it possible the the virus can distroy the bios.... thank you very much...to you all

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Response Number 4

Name: stealther04
Date: August 30, 2004 at 19:43:40 Pacific
Subject: did not display cmos

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Yes a few rare viruses can flash your bios.. Those viruses are out there but there are not to many I have no friends that had a virus destroy the bios but they have warned me about it and told me of people they knew it happen too! It would be entirely possible for a virus that flashed your bios to for example overclock your processor and make it so hot your hardware is destroyed!

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Response Number 5

Name: cliffpage
Date: September 1, 2004 at 13:04:31 Pacific
Subject: did not display cmos

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this might sound a bit stupid but i take it you are sure that the Delete key is the correct key to enter BIOS. Some computers use other keys eg. F2 ( a dell i had), F10 (a compaq i had) - and other keys I guess.

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Response Number 6

Name: renz
Date: September 5, 2004 at 20:10:01 Pacific
Subject: did not display cmos

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thank you very much for your help.. maybe i buy a new one... god bless all

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