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Old January 30th 05, 12:53 PM
Trent©
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:33:24 -0500, Tanya
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Get a good battery...then we can continue.


what next?



I think you may have drained your battery the other day.

If the battery is working properly, you should not be loosing any time
when you have the computer turned off for a few hours or so. So check
that part.

Recap for us. Exactly what problems are you still having?

One bit of information for you...

The BIOS is an area of your computer where YOU tell the computer what
hardware you have...and how to configure it...along with some other
configurable settings. And then the computer uses that information in
its boot process. In general, the computer does NOT detect your
hardware (except in some cases, especially on a computer as old as
yours) and tell you what you have. YOU tell the computer what you
have. The exceptions started with the advent of IDE auto detect, etc.

I say this because you talked of 'phantom' errors...on the floppy
drive, for instance. This is probably NOT a phantom error.

You tell the computer...in the BIOS...that you have a 3 1/2" floppy.
You boot up the computer...but have a loose cable that yer not aware
of. You'll get an error message if the drive is not detected.

In like manner...you can put in a 10 gig drive...and tell the computer
that you actually have a 6 gig drive. The computer will boot...and
you'll have a 6 gig drive.

The same is true of other hardware and ports. For instance, you can
tell the computer that you don't have a printer port...by not enabling
it in the CMOS. When you boot, you won't be able to print.

Get back to us as to where you stand now...what problems you have.


P.S. You DON'T have a PSU problem...so don't mess with it.

Good luck.


Have a nice one...

Trent©

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