[Lowfer] re Oh NO

[Peter Barick]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the tip. I checked and th bat. reads 2.5V. That should be sufficient for CMOS activity.
I have found others at around 1V and the PC works. This PC has been in use for some time,
the chipset is dated 94. I pieced it together for free and it's been fault free for many years.

But I think this fault begins with an unusual OS using a 3rd party setup for multi-boot control.
Under that many OSs could be accomodated but only the selected one would boot.
It is in that process that I feel the fault lies, the OS selection screen is gone, hence
the missing boot process. So the question is why no recovery.
It's not internet connected for virus mitigation  ;=)

Looks like a reload now.

Cheers -- Peter

>>> "Alan Melia" <alan.melia at btinternet.com> 05/16/08 4:56 AM >>>
Peter, I presume you have checked but these days I regularly forget that
most MBs have a small battery in thenm and I have had "no boot" response
when the battery has dropped to a low level and corrupts the CMOS. At one
stage I thought I had a virus and replaced the PC but that same machine is
still happily running with the same HD now that the coin cell has been
replaced....must have been about 5 years or so old.
Best wishes
Alan G3NYK