The other suggestions made are quite good, but here is another item to try. There should be a jumper on your mom-board that will clear your CMOS settings. The BIOS gets confused if these settings are corrupted somehow.
Hope this helps, Bart Szyszka wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, > so I'm not sure which one could be causing this (probably > Windows?), but when I turn on my computer right now, it > doesn't start. I get absolutely nothing on my screen except > the default thing that shows up on the monitor if the computer > is turned off and on the older monitor I tried it with it's > just a blank blank space. I hear a little ticking like it's > doing something, but that doesn't last long because when I > put a boot disk in it doesn't go far enough to be trying to > boot of the harddrive/floppy/cdrom. I've tried replacing the > graphics card with a different one so it doesn't look like that's > the problem. My guess is that this is a BIOS problem. Any ideas? > Could a (Windows?) virus have caused this? Is the bios (I have > an AMIBIOS in that computer) replacable? Easily? Inexpenssively? > I'd appreciate some help with this. I'm using a very old computer > right now with a 486 that can barely handle this telnet prompt > in Win95 (I install Debian off the harddrive and don't have > anything downloaded for it in this computer for me to be able to > set it up easily), BTW. I'd appreciate some advice (in private > since this might not be specific to Debian?). > > - Bart > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] NRL Administrator http://www.nrl.csci.unt.edu Talons Alumni http://orgs.unt.edu/talons Where do all the bits go when the computer is done with them?