🚀 go-pugleaf

Buddy, You are dead meat.  You know how I upgraded my wife's machine
to Win95?  I just gave her whole new hard drive, leaving the old one
as D.  It definitely is the best way to go:-)


I had a similar problem with my new motherboard and Windows NT.  After
the first part of the install, the machine would not boot at all.  I
fixed the problem by clearing the CMOS.  Most boards will have a
jumper that will erase all the configuration settings, setting them
back to their initial values.  Then, you can go into the BIOS and
tweak it.  The main purpose of this feature is to erase a pssword in
case you've forgotten it.  It's also something you should do after
flashing the BIOS.

My guess is that Win95/NT knocks the BIOS off balance (so to speak)
when it checks it for identification.  But it's more than that.  I
think the BIOS has to have been, for some reason or another, on the
edge of stability; and Win95/NT just pushed it over the edge.


Monday, huh?  Let's see; she gets home, you uncharacteristically avoid
talking about computers, she goes to check her email after dinner;
that puts you time of death somewhere around 8-9 o'clock, right.:-)


On Sun, 02 Nov 1997 07:57:50 -0800, tanman <tanman@lv.rmci.net> wrote:

>Since my wife will be out of town until Mon, I decided to fool around
>with her computer and install win95 so I could play with it instead of
>using my system.  Well all hell broke loose and I had to uninstall it.
>All of a sudden the computer would not boot into the C Drive.  So being
>a nitwit, I reformated the C drive hoping this would do the trick.  But
>it still will not boot up in C.  I have to use a Emergency disk in the
>Adrive to boot up.
>
>Then after I get the dos prompt in A, I cd to C and do a check on the C
>drive using different utilities which shows the c drive is there and no
>errors on it.  I used MSD, Norton, and PC Tools and they all show the C
>drive is there and formated to 450 megs and everything in order.
>
>However as soon as I take the emergency disk out of the A drive and
>power on I get the bios showing 32 megs of ram and then showing 1 fixed
>HD, 1 floppy drive, 1 Parrallel port, 1 serial port like it should, but
>then it stops the screen is blank with a little blinking cursor in the
>upper left of the screen.  I have to ctl-alt-del and insert the
>emergency disk and then it works.
>
>Can anyone help me out before the wife gets home so I can get this
>system working again.  All info would be appreciated.  I.   I will be
>monitoring the NG and Email very closely hoping some knowledgeable
>person can get me out of this fix.
>
>Thanks in advance.  Don



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