Optiplex GX110 Pent.III 667Mhz - Bios Freeze????

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I have the above machine which can't boot past the bios.

I power up, hit F2 to go to bios, it gets to the main menu then when I
start moving around in there it just freezes. I reboot, and the same
thing.

If I hit F1 for it to just continue on it just freezes there to.

Any hints? Is the CPU bad? the Board?


TIA

 

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"Rock Braud" <rnbraud@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have the above machine which can't boot past the bios.
>
> I power up, hit F2 to go to bios, it gets to the main menu then when I
> start moving around in there it just freezes. I reboot, and the same
> thing.
>
> If I hit F1 for it to just continue on it just freezes there to.
>
> Any hints? Is the CPU bad? the Board?
>
>
> TIA


Try another known good keyboard.

 

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Also try another battery in the motherboard. A dead battery does strange things
to computers... Ben Myers

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:44:32 -0500, "S.Lewis" <stew1960@mail.com> wrote:

>
>"Rock Braud" <rnbraud@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:a46be137.0407021708.6ef421d0@posting.google.com...
>>I have the above machine which can't boot past the bios.
>>
>> I power up, hit F2 to go to bios, it gets to the main menu then when I
>> start moving around in there it just freezes. I reboot, and the same
>> thing.
>>
>> If I hit F1 for it to just continue on it just freezes there to.
>>
>> Any hints? Is the CPU bad? the Board?
>>
>>
>> TIA
>
>
>Try another known good keyboard.
>
>

 

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If the other poster's suggestions don't work, try reseating your memory
and/or only using one stick, assuming of course you have more than one.

"Rock Braud" <rnbraud@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:a46be137.0407021708.6ef421d0@posting.google.com...
> I have the above machine which can't boot past the bios.
>
> I power up, hit F2 to go to bios, it gets to the main menu then when I
> start moving around in there it just freezes. I reboot, and the same
> thing.
>
> If I hit F1 for it to just continue on it just freezes there to.
>
> Any hints? Is the CPU bad? the Board?
>
>
> TIA

 

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Thanks for the info guys. I will give them all a try and get back with you.

Thanks.


"mdp" <markdpend@spambegone.aol.com> wrote in message news:<2bNFc.4225$R36.4154@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> If the other poster's suggestions don't work, try reseating your memory
> and/or only using one stick, assuming of course you have more than one.
>
> "Rock Braud" <rnbraud@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:a46be137.0407021708.6ef421d0@posting.google.com...
> > I have the above machine which can't boot past the bios.
> >
> > I power up, hit F2 to go to bios, it gets to the main menu then when I
> > start moving around in there it just freezes. I reboot, and the same
> > thing.
> >
> > If I hit F1 for it to just continue on it just freezes there to.
> >
> > Any hints? Is the CPU bad? the Board?
> >
> >
> > TIA

 

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Ben, you da man!

I know it has been awhile, but I just changed the battery like you
said, and bam, now it works. I was going to buy a new cpu, but for
$3.22 its fixed.

Thanks a bunch.

Now I just gotta find me some cheep PC100 SDRAM and I am ready to go.

Later.



ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message news:<40e63d89.61188261@news.charter.net>...
> Also try another battery in the motherboard. A dead battery does strange things
> to computers... Ben Myers
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:44:32 -0500, "S.Lewis" <stew1960@mail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Rock Braud" <rnbraud@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:a46be137.0407021708.6ef421d0@posting.google.com...
> >>I have the above machine which can't boot past the bios.
> >>
> >> I power up, hit F2 to go to bios, it gets to the main menu then when I
> >> start moving around in there it just freezes. I reboot, and the same
> >> thing.
> >>
> >> If I hit F1 for it to just continue on it just freezes there to.
> >>
> >> Any hints? Is the CPU bad? the Board?
> >>
> >>
> >> TIA
> >
> >
> >Try another known good keyboard.
> >
> >