Booting problems On windows 2k Professional. Please advice. 6

[Mark505]

Good day all, first and foremost i do really appreciate this site and its efforts to help others / one another.

Anyway, my problem started a couple of days ago. I have a compac pentium 2 computer.with windows 2000 profesional oper system. when i press the power button so as to start up, the compac screen comes on, then a messsage ' press any key to view option rom messages '. It then starts to boot, after the win 2k screen start up window is done, a blue screen appears and the comp shuts down and statrts the boot process again. I have tried to boot on all possible options using the f8 key, but problem still continues. I really dont know what happened or what i can do to have it running again.
Any suggestions? Thanks.

Mark505.

 

[Mark505]

Oh..i also forgot to add that, the bootdisks i downloaded arent being recognized. When i insert them, its states that that is an invalid disk, plse replace and insert other disk.

Mark505.

 

[TekTippy4U]

CMOS battery life expectancy is 3-4 years

TT4U

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[TekTippy4U]

Can u get to command prompt only and if so type
Chkdsk C: /p /r

TT4U

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[Mark505]

Godd afternoon, i wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who participated in this discussion for i finally got to have it running. I bouhgt a new battery and also got someone to help me with a compaq quick restore disk. The disc cleaned up every thing and now the comp is working. i also reinstalled win 98, and all is now normal. Probably there was a virus, but it now works. I guess ill do with the 98 oper system for now. I may install win xp coz i have the oper sytem.

Again Thanks for your participation.

Mark505.

 

[TekTippy4U]

Thanx for the update Mark505;
and since you're starting fresh, maybe consider mozilla's browser instead of IE..
Read this

http://www.linuxinsider.com/perl/story/32404.html

and view the feedback comments at bottom of page..
and mozilla's stuff is here

http://www.mozilla.org/products/

TT4U

Notification:
These are just "my" thoughts....and should be carefully measured against other opinions.
Backup All Important Data/Docs..All involved shall be spared the grief.

 

[window2k]

my comp is like the same but..... everything is alright just that.. when, after the part where if u want to press F8, where it starts to load windows wit the blue squars... mine goes to the middle and then *WHAM* my comp restarts :-(

 

[Itsmillertime777]

Ive also had a simlar problem. happened when i had a pci video card installed but there was still the original chipset enabled. remove anything recently installed and try again.