Guest
Tue May 24, 2005 3:22 am
good day!
i have a problem with my cyrix 586 mainboard. When i turn it on, it
sounds one beep, displaying BIOS logo, running memory count, but when
it begins searching for OS or maybe turning to that phase, it now
hangs. just there forever w/ a blinking cursor. i tried to swap the
BIOS but just the same. i like to restore this computer because its
wonderful to learn new things & if it is fixed, it can still be useful
because i do encoding only most of the time. pls anyone on the web can
give me ideas and suggestions on how to save this computer. helps would
be so greatly appreciated.
ian (phil.)
JeffM
Guest
Tue May 24, 2005 9:48 pm
Quote:
i have a problem with my cyrix 586 mainboard.
When i turn it on, it sounds one beep, displaying BIOS logo,
ian (phil.) cheian07 @ yahoo.com
Your question would be more appropriate for one of the groups here:
http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?q=ingroup:comp-windows+-ingroup:comp-windows-news
The problem is not the MoBo.
1 beep means that the system passed POST.
A BIOS screen means the video (thus all the basic hardware is OK).
Quote:
when it begins searching for OS or maybe turning to that phase,
it now hangs.
It could be your HDD is bad. More likely Windoze is screwed up.
Do you get a non-system disk message?
In CMOS Setup, set your boot precedence
so that it sees the floppy drive or or the CD drive before the HDD.
Use you Startup Disk or your Windows Install CD.
Bet you get a DOS prompt.
