This machine won't boot beyond the F2/F12 for setup/boot options screen. None of these options will open up though. If I press escape at this point I can see that the cpu, bios version, memory and hard drive have been recognised. I have checked out the hard drive, memory and wireless and they are ok.
Stripped it down and checked all power rails and everything appears fine.
I'm wondering if the bios is corrupt and been looking for ways to update it. I can only get into the bios screen with the hard drive removed and doing a hard reset. When I successfully get into the bios its' a coin toss whether or not the usb dvd drive has been detected and available as a boot device.
I tried Hirens' with its' mini xp but it doesn't have the drivers' for usb drives so can't use a stick to update bios.
Anyone suggest an alternative to mini xp which will recognise a usb stick?
Thought I'd best add that the bios update is a windows exe file
Stripped it down and checked all power rails and everything appears fine.
I'm wondering if the bios is corrupt and been looking for ways to update it. I can only get into the bios screen with the hard drive removed and doing a hard reset. When I successfully get into the bios its' a coin toss whether or not the usb dvd drive has been detected and available as a boot device.
I tried Hirens' with its' mini xp but it doesn't have the drivers' for usb drives so can't use a stick to update bios.
Anyone suggest an alternative to mini xp which will recognise a usb stick?
Thought I'd best add that the bios update is a windows exe file
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