a friend has a Compaq Presario (used the MS 7184 motherboard)
everytime you do a cold shut down and restart it, it loses the BIOS settings, as you get the usual checksum error message.
some times when you start up nothing on the screen at all no POST messages
also noticed in Windows XP SP 3 you can be using the machine, but all of a sudden is freezes but you can move the mouse and the mouse pointer moves on the screen and keyboard working (pressing CAPS lock the light light up and vice versa) (I know how bizarre)
done the following
replaced RAM
replaced CMOS battery
replaced Hard Drive
unplugged all PCI cards
cleared CMOS settings
Upgraded BIOS from Compaq website
reinstalled fresh XP (on 2 different hard drives)
any ideas anyone
everytime you do a cold shut down and restart it, it loses the BIOS settings, as you get the usual checksum error message.
some times when you start up nothing on the screen at all no POST messages
also noticed in Windows XP SP 3 you can be using the machine, but all of a sudden is freezes but you can move the mouse and the mouse pointer moves on the screen and keyboard working (pressing CAPS lock the light light up and vice versa) (I know how bizarre)
done the following
replaced RAM
replaced CMOS battery
replaced Hard Drive
unplugged all PCI cards
cleared CMOS settings
Upgraded BIOS from Compaq website
reinstalled fresh XP (on 2 different hard drives)
any ideas anyone