Summary: I tried setting the BIOS settings to none and it doesn't work. The default setting is AUTO and this is when the trouble occurs. The optical drives ar...
Summary: Hi. My problem's a bit complicated so I'll start from the beginning. I reformatted my hard drive in order to remove my old copy of XP Home so I could...
Summary: I'm trying to fix this HP for a friend and can't get it working. Here's what happens: Every time you turn the computer on, it shows the splash image f...
Summary: Hi i have just invested an old laptop which would be ideal for taking to college as its rather small and i wouldnt care about scratching it etc... but...
Summary: When I got this new board it seems to work fine... but I don't know what caused this. The BIOS string is TRM - <S3PRO-MUT 2.08> However, it somehow...
Summary: Hey -- I'm new to the forum, so hello everyone! I've just set up my first system, and I am having trouble accessing the BIOS. I know the key to press,...
Summary: I have been having trouble reformatting a PC, a simple matter you would think. The machine in question has two drives, a CD-rom (broken) and a DVD-rom...
Summary: Stuart, my second system is original a Pentium2 350MHz but I have a Asus P2B board in it and Asus offers a beta bios from the middle of 2002 that supp...
Summary: Hey all i am in real trouble here my system started acting strange lat night it would restart all by itself someone told me to upgrade my BIOS so i we...
Summary: i will add this now after some more trouble shooting... if i leave a windows 98 cd in the drive and set it to boot form the cdrom. with no other IDE ...
Summary: Hi all I need some help. This is the deal. I am building a PC. These are the specs. Motherboard: ASUS P5N-E SLI CPU: E6850 w /heatsink Video Card: 88...
Summary: A dizzy and enigmatic trouble is happening to my pc. The CD-ROM drive only appears in Standard CMOS settings when i turn on the computer. If i decide...
Summary: C_Legend: I used such overlay software (called EZ-drive) in my 486 and pentium time myself. It's written directly into the MBR (as far as I remember -...
Summary: Its a computer I working on (my own) but it well....isnt working! (duh). I cant get it up to POST or Video BIOS. The videocard is a Cirrus Logic AGP 8...
Summary: I need to flash the BIOS of this machine. I know that it is a Shuttle and the ID is 637awiq7 but I am having a little trouble finding what I need on ...
Summary: having trouble finding in the bios where it says what cpu speed it is ruuning at i have an intel p 4 cpu on my newer machine i can find it just like t...
Summary: Hi, I am going start smashing every compaq/hp box is see,,j.j. I have had nothing but trouble from this compaq 7479, if you have time please look at o...
Summary: You may have damaged the keyboard, or rather the chip(s) inside it, and that can cause strange symptoms. Unplug the keyboard and see what happens - y...
Summary: In that case it isn't a bios access password, it's a system access password. Clearing the cmos will not get rid of the passwords on this relatively re...
Summary: I have an Asus P5A mobo and I am trying to flash the bios so that it will support a 60gb hdd. I can boot to the floppy and get aflash.exe to run but o...
Summary: I don't know how this happened, but it's an interesting problem. Out of the blue, my monitor decides it doesn't want to show the Windows Desktop anym...
Summary: i dont know about the bios update. One thing to help trouble shooting is to disconnect the drive leads from the mobo entirely. This rules out any prob...
Summary: ok, i'm wokring on a compaq armada 1550DMT. HOW DO I GET INTO THE BIOS!! i can't figure it out!! someone please help!!!! and where can i get some good...
Summary: I would suggest checking the jumper settings, even though they have been working. I have seen stranger things happen. WinXP seems to completely ignore...
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