Replace the memory!!!
Memory (DDR single sticks) tend to be flaky and when they have
problems nothing works right.
Stewart
At 05:25 PM 10/27/2008, you wrote:
I rescued a Gateway ATXSTF "Performance 1400" machine from the
dumpster at the town's clean-up day Saturday. The owner said that he
thought "something was wrong with the motherboard". It had a Staples
repair sticker and another sticker on the back announcing that it
was "refurbished" - I suppose those two stickers should have been
enough to let it go into the dumpster. :-)
First, it wouldn't boot at all - just a series of beeps. I took a
chance and replaced the battery (I didn't have a 2032, so I threw in
a 2025, which seems to work OK), and it now boots up, but then would
start to load WinXP and then re-boot repeatedly. So I pulled every
plug, connector, card, memory, and even the P4 processor and
re-seated them. Now it boots up and loads WinXP (home), but if I try
to much of anything, I get a BSD with the usual cryptic messages -
never the same ones twice. Thinking that I might have a bad ram
(there are two 512 meg sticks), I pulled them one at a time, but all
that did was slow the Windows boot time. It came with another hard
drive (apparently the trouble started when the owner tried to
install a 200 gig drive to replace the 100 gig drive), and I will
try that next. I really don't need another 1.5 GHz Windowz machine,
but I am just ornery enough that I would like to get it working.
Any (constructive) suggestions?
Mike
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Prince of Peace www.princeofpeaceozark.org
Ozark, AL SL 82
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