TSGL: Old computer

[Don Penlington]

Russ wrote:
>Have you tried to boot to a boot cd>>


Yes. But nothing happens. I can't get into bios to change the boot order. 
I'll try a dos boot floppy (Engineman's suggestion) , but I doubt it will 
work for the same reason.

Dean wrote:<<Do you get any keyboard response at all?>>

No. I've tried 2 known good keyboards. I'll try again, as that thought had 
occurred to me.  Even so, if all was well, it wouldn't just be sitting 
there waiting. So entering the bios won't achieve anything than perhaps 
changing the boot order to allow a boot CD to run.

Dean wrote:<<If the cmos battery has gone bad>>

I hadn't thought of that. I'll ask her if the clock has been slowing. Worth 
trying. Quite likely it hasn't been replaced in 6 years.

Might a boot virus or corrupted MBR halt the boot process at this stage?

Don Penlington




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