boot problem???

[Dave]

Hi I have been trying to get my old celeron 667 128mb ram on a Aopen ax34 mb
up and running. Funny thing, fired up the old system installed win xp pro
with all updates and it seemed to work fine (a little slow maybe but my amd
system was getting a mb issue repaired so i needed a backup system). Then
tried to swap in a slave drive and the system would just hang prepost no
bios. Took out the new drive reboot same problem. Checked all connections
cleared bios start again still just freeze before bios? Powered down unplug
everything let stand 15 minutes plug in power, nothing..5 times later
nothing. Then I rebooted walked away came back 10 15 mins later the bios
screen just came on everything works fine WTF. Now Whenever i power down or
reboot i have to go through this circus show just to get back running.
Anybody got ideas ?????

 

[Grinder]

Hi I have been trying to get my old celeron 667 128mb ram on a Aopen ax34 mb
up and running. Funny thing, fired up the old system installed win xp pro
with all updates and it seemed to work fine (a little slow maybe but my amd
system was getting a mb issue repaired so i needed a backup system). Then
tried to swap in a slave drive and the system would just hang prepost no
bios. Took out the new drive reboot same problem. Checked all connections
cleared bios start again still just freeze before bios? Powered down unplug
everything let stand 15 minutes plug in power, nothing..5 times later
nothing. Then I rebooted walked away came back 10 15 mins later the bios
screen just came on everything works fine WTF. Now Whenever i power down or
reboot i have to go through this circus show just to get back running.
Anybody got ideas ?????

It could be a heat-related problem. Are the case fans running? In
particular, check the fan on the processor. You can try opening the pc
and running a regular (big) fan on it's interior, and see if you can
boot more reliably.

 

[Wayne Stallwood]

Hi I have been trying to get my old celeron 667 128mb ram on a Aopen ax34
mb up and running. Funny thing, fired up the old system installed win xp
pro with all updates and it seemed to work fine (a little slow maybe but
my amd system was getting a mb issue repaired so i needed a backup
system). Then tried to swap in a slave drive and the system would just
hang prepost no bios. Took out the new drive reboot same problem. Checked
all connections cleared bios start again still just freeze before bios?
Powered down unplug everything let stand 15 minutes plug in power,
nothing..5 times later nothing. Then I rebooted walked away came back 10
15 mins later the bios screen just came on everything works fine WTF. Now
Whenever i power down or reboot i have to go through this circus show just
to get back running. Anybody got ideas ?????

Out of interest when it does eventually come back is the clock correct ?

CMOS battery needs replacing or perhaps the CMOS contents need clearing ?