i found an old computer and hooked it all up but when i try to boot it up it says: Bank 0: EDO and just stays at this screen anyone know what this means? any help would be appreciated! thanks

Well, that's most likely refering to the RAM. Check and see if the RAM is installed in bank 0 properly. Also, any info. about the computer would be helpful in diagnosing the problem.

sounds like the ram is missing or bad. Look on motherboard to see if the ram sims are still in it. May be dims but probably not.

"i found an old computer" (When I was a teenager the above phrase meant it was acquired, let's say, by less than honorable means.) Was it lost before that? Did you find it in the trash? There may have been a reason that it was trashed. If it was trashed it was probably stripped first too. ("I can't believe someone left a perfectly good computer just lying around on their desk, glad I found it.")

Hello JB, I will try to answer to the question: This computer is using bars RAM called EDO, on the times of windows 95, the EDO's were considerated as the best memory bars avalaibles on the market, problem is not often known by users !!!! EDO's works always two by two, that's mean when you add new EDO bar, you need in fact to buy 2. If this computer don't match correctly that's mean inside the slots dedicated to the EDO's Bar one is missing connected to another one present actually, that's maybe the reason why the precedent user thought his machine was broken. Open the tower of this computer and find the EDO's, you should find 6 slots alltogether, probabely today you have 5 bars connected and you need the sixth missing. Good luck and happy New Year

When you first turn it on does it scroll through the memory? Identifying the RAM as EDO is usually done on the second page of the posting screen. Since it's identified the EDO RAM it could be it's freezing on the next step which is usually going to the drives. You might check your cmos to see if the drives are identified correctly.

Despite the thinly veiled accusations by "." - obsolete computers are tossed out all of the time, I've found literally dozens of them over the years (and by "found" I do mean found). Most usually worked just fine, occasionally had to replace a power supply switch or similar. Resale value of a P1 isn't much, what with no guarantee, plus the cost of advertising. Soon P2's will be left on the curbside :)