Takumba06

Same problem my computer not booting. It seems to be able to
find the boot sequence to go to windows. Just a blank screen.
Thought the cosmo battery was bad, purchase that and still
it would not start by turning off computer and and changing the
battery. Notice that the motherboard light was still on, so I unplugged
the computer cord and then went to restart and then the computer
went to the Setup with the messagae of Since you usa a new cpu or
reinstalled your cpu the system boots up at cpu bus frequency of 66mhz.
The speed on the setup was showing the correct processing chip speed
of 3000 mhz. I saved the setting and the computer booted up.
I will need to have a tech check out my hardware and stuff, I know.
So would it be ok to just leave the computer on until that time.
Down loaded the software that checks power and temp, but do not
know how to read the information. Almost forgot, when the computer
booted up to windows, it went back to the year of 2002. If you
can help explain what is going on. The software I brought that was
suppose to help boot the system did not work, even trying to use
Xp professional disk. Still have not found my A drive to create a
bootable start disk yet. Would this help to get the computer jump
started?
Please advise

View my previous post with sensor voltage stats.
Intel Pentium 4 300 Ghz 2 CPUS 80X86 MMX
XP OS with service pk 2, ASUS Motherboard,
FSB 800 MHZ, DDR 400 P4S800, NVIDIA Geforce FX 5900 ULTra (256)
Ram 1.4 GB, primary hard drive Sansung 120 gig, Slave Seagate 250 gig

MhzManiac

With no power applied, if you replaced the MB battery you then cleared the CMOS . Your BIOS is now in default mode with the original start date & settings from the mauf.. You can fix the date issue by double clicking the time clock in your Windows task bar. Setting the time and date in windows will set the Bios also.

Your system should operate fine on default settings but some componets may not be enabled in default mode. Enter the bios at startup (perss delete key or F2 key or whatever is shows on your screen) and check each catagory. If you are not sure what to do , better wait & call a mate to help you. Reading the manual may not be much help either if you don't have experience with BIOS settings.

If no one is available to help, please post your BIOS questions here.

One thing to check for if you have a blank sceen but windows seems to load anyway, you could have the wrong video card selected in the BIOS chipset menu. This gives control to the primary GFX card in case of multiple cards are installed. PCI seems to be the most common default selection. If your 5900 is AGP or PCIe, you might want to change that.

dai

do you see the screen in safe mode

Takumba06

Yes when I make the choice of booting to Safe mode.
It shows up in blue and the bottom and freezes, I then
reboot by to a blank screen.

dai

boot from the xp cd and choose install
when it says press R for repair,press R
in the recovery console run
chkdsk /r

Takumba06

I have the original XP Home Edition and
the XP Professional upgrade CD and I would
still have that blank monitor. Did I need to
press an F key, alt / shift or something else?
Let me know. For now i just leave my computer
on until I have the funds for a tech to resolve.
Lots of bills and mortgage to pay. Also just
got back from Las Vegas, money tight.
Please advise. Trying to cheap it, but will
get someone to look at my hardware.
Thanks
Duvall

dai

to do the upgrade it has to be done from within windows
booting from the disk only allows the clean install
in the recovery console try
fixboot

MhzManiac

If you don't have a boot menu option like F11, you will have to enter the bios and go to the boot sequence page. There you need to set the cd rom/ dvd as the number one boot device. Press F10 to save your changes. When boot up begins, press the spacebar when you see "Press a key to boot from cd".
Now you will be able to enter the recovery console.