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John Hale wrote:
>
> Fireclown wrote:
> > John Hale wrote:
> >
> >> Edward J. Neth wrote:
> >>
> >>> Time to replace the BIOS battery (a $3 CR-2032 lithium battery on the
> >>> system board).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> John Hale wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Just recently at boot up I've gotten a screen asking me to press A
> >>>> to boot from the floppy, C to boot from the disk (i.e., hard
> >>>> drive). If I press C it goes on to load Windows as normal. I've
> >>>> never gotten this before. I have an old P5-120 (Aladdin MB)
> >>>> upgraded to an AMD K6 400 and MR bios.
> >>
> >>
> >> I replaced the battery and I'm still getting the same C:-A: boot disk
> >> choice at boot up. Any other advice, or are the chips in this 9-year
> >> old computer just finally starting to go? Thanks.
> >
> >
> > Now you can go into the system bios and set it to boot from the hard drive.
> >
> > Fireclown
>
> Thanks, but I tried this and and I still got the boot menu. This
> finally pushed me to go tonight for an e-Machines T2862 for $399
> w/rebate. As basic as this machine is in today's computers, it'll "tide
> me over" until I get a couple of characters graduated from college this
> coming year, and definitely give me a bit more power than an 9-yr old
> P5-120! And I still sorta bought a Gateway...
John,
As an interesting aside, My Gateway P5-90 is 10 years old and still running
reliably. I upgraded to a Pentium Overdrive 200 Mhz chip and upped the RAM,
but that's about it. It runs fine on Win95a and networks well with the other
four computers in the house. It cost $3,000 new in 1994. Recently, I saw a
P5-90 on ebay. The current bid was $ .99.
Scott
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