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randr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 08:48 AM
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Replaced my power supply yesterday
Edited on Sat Jul-30-05 08:52 AM by randr
and now when I boot up a dos(?) screen locks on until I either hit F1 to continue or Eel to go to Setup.
How do I avoid this?
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 10:29 AM
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1. Go to setup
Check all your settings, save and exit.
The battery for your CMOS may have been low and it lost some of the settings is the most likely problem.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 10:30 AM
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2. Guessing ...
Maybe your CMOS (BIOS) battery is dead, and so your BIOS settings got cleared. Go to SETUP and select setup defaults, then save and reboot.
Yoy may need to run the hard drive detect option too, after selecting setup defaults and before saving. If the basic options screen in setup show no hard drives or they don't look right, try the HD detect option.

If that works to get rid of the boot stall you are getting, then you might want to go back into SETUP and tweak the settings, can't really tell you what to do there because I don't know enough.
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randr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 11:28 AM
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3. Thanks y'all
Will do next time I boot up.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-30-05 02:43 PM
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4. Oh, yeah, you might want to replace the CMOS battery.
After checking it first.
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