Will not go thru boot or go into Bios!

[TheMaximizer]

Can't boot or go into Bios! The machine (Packard Bell- P2 266 MHZ) starts to boot... showing
PhoenixBios 4.0 Release 6.0...etc. then continues booting

Pentium 11 Processor 266 MHz
0640 System RAM Passed
0047M Extended RAM Passed
0512K Cache SRAM Passed
System BIOS shadowed
Video Bios shadowed
UMB Upper limit segment address: Fo21
Keyboard Detected
Mouse initialized
Fixed Disk 0: Maxtor 2B020h1
ATAPI CD-ROM: CD-RW BCE2410IM
ATAPI Removable Drive: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI



Press <F2> to enter SETUP

When I hit <F2> it says its entering but hangs and goes no further. I changed the cmos battery to see if that would make any difference. It didn't! Can anyone give some other suggestions on what to do to fix this mess???????

Thanks in advance
Vince

 

[Cindy1]

I would strip it down to just the motherboard, power supply, video and memory. Then try and press f2 and if it works add each drive back to the motherboard one by one to find the culprit. One of them is holding the system down.
Cindy

 

[edfair]

Or you have a BIOS/Motherboard problem. Possibly memory failure. You could try reseating memory and processor.

Ed Fair
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