TSGL: Old computer

[The Computer Whisperer]

try unplugging everything except the RAM and CD drive and boot from a
bootable CD, that will tell you if it is the processor / motherboard

2008/7/13 The Computer Whisperer <justin at whisperer.com.au>:

> it's either the Boot order in bios
>
> or a crook power supply,
>
> or dud ram, however usually your Bios would beep spastically at you if it
> were RAM
>
> 2008/7/13 Russell W. Coover <coover at fastmail.fm>:
>
> Don,
>>
>> If there is more than one memory chip, try removing one of them. That
>> doesn't work the first time, put the first back and take another out ...
>> and
>> so on until each has been removed with all of the others remaining in the
>> machine.
>>
>> Russ
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
>> Behalf Of Don Penlington
>> Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 8:09 PM
>> To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: TSGL: Old computer
>>
>> 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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