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Old 05-01-2008, 08:47 PM   #13 (permalink)
Wolfpackalex
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OS: XP SP2


Re: New Motherboard, new boot problem

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Originally Posted by dai View Post
clear the cmos
turn the computer off
remove the power lead from the back
take the side off
remove the cmos battery
move the cmos jumper from pins 1 and 2 to pin 2 and 3 and the back to pins 1 and 2
replace the battery
put the side on
replug in the power lead
boot the computer
set it up out of the case on a piece of cardboard with
cpu
ram
video
speaker
and see if you get post
I'll try that and get back to you.

On second though, what am I exactly looking for, and which hard drive should I use? I've got a clean hard drive, and right now if I clear the CMOS and set it to boot to the hard drive it gets hung at "Verifying DMI pool data". Actually, the same thing happens if I use the HDD with XP already installed, but I'm not really expecting the XP installed HDD to get very far.


I'm beginning to think there is an issue with my motherboard communicating with my hard drives, although I'm not quite sure why. I've flashed to a new BIOS and the motherboard recognizes the HDD in post. I don't know, I'm probably just making things up since I'm stumped as it is.

Last edited by Wolfpackalex : 05-01-2008 at 08:57 PM.
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