ididitagain
Technical User
i was tearing apart an old computer (regular pentium processor, that's it), couldn't use it for anything so decided to see if i could backup some stuff or something with the old hard drive(had no idea how big it was), put it in, forgot to set as slave, boots up in win95, pwr off, set as slave, try to boot again. stops at... gets to screen where it shows what it recognizes (primary master/slave, secondary master/slave, pci stuff, irq stuff), recognizes correct hard drive and it as master and other one as slave, i have the Asus A7N8X motherboard, it has this voice that says what the computer is doing, so she says "computer has completed self power on test" or something like that, then says "booting from OS", nothing happens, it just sits there with the screen at the bottom saying "verifying DMI pool settings..." even without 2nd drive at all it still does this
what in the world happened, did booting into 95 for a second screw everything up or what? i tried resetting CMOS and changing ways of booting
it comes to screen where it lists PCI info and everything about all drives,and on the bottom says "verfiying DMI data pool...." or if i changed the bios it will say "verifying DMI data pool... updated succesfully"
i have practically tried building the thing from ground up, the only thing i did not take out was the motherboard, so i reseated everything, i tried taking battery out for long period of time (says that cpu was changed so i'm sure all settings were set back to default), i cannot get it past the screen described above no matter how the Bios is set up, i've tried every combination, i'm racking my brain and can simply not think of what's wrong.
does anyone know what could possibly be the reason why it will not boot?
could i have corrupted the hard drive or am i missing something real real obvious?
what in the world happened, did booting into 95 for a second screw everything up or what? i tried resetting CMOS and changing ways of booting
it comes to screen where it lists PCI info and everything about all drives,and on the bottom says "verfiying DMI data pool...." or if i changed the bios it will say "verifying DMI data pool... updated succesfully"
i have practically tried building the thing from ground up, the only thing i did not take out was the motherboard, so i reseated everything, i tried taking battery out for long period of time (says that cpu was changed so i'm sure all settings were set back to default), i cannot get it past the screen described above no matter how the Bios is set up, i've tried every combination, i'm racking my brain and can simply not think of what's wrong.
does anyone know what could possibly be the reason why it will not boot?
could i have corrupted the hard drive or am i missing something real real obvious?