New PS maybe? Or even better, a new PC. :-) On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:21 AM, John Aldrich <jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com > wrote:
> Our CEO brought in a couple “clunker” PCs to use as AS/400 terminals. One > of them had an ATI Rage 128 video card, which the Windows 98 image did not > have drivers for. I downloaded the drivers and attempted to install them, > when it gave me an error that it needed Direct-X 8 or later. So, I download > and install Direct-X 8.1 and reboot. There’s a quick blue screen when it > goes to reboot and it hangs on restarting, so I hit the power button. When I > went to bring it back up, the HP (Pavilion 7900 “Tortuga”) splash screen was > all that came up and it was “glitchy”. > > So, I powered down, pulled the video card and tried a different one. No > luck. I even tried pulling the CMOS battery as I couldn’t find a CMOS reset > jumper. L > > Anyway, long story short… no way to even get into BIOS. Any suggestions? > > > > [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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