Only one part to deal with
Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 9:48 am
Posted by Kiwi
(2109 messages posted)
The second part has aleady been covered many, many multiples of times. It's all
over the entire net, for which the worst search engine you could use would still
find several thousand hits. Here at Annoyances, there have been literally hundreds
of past threads about it, and the forum uses a Google search to match threads. Try
that after you do this next:
The password in BIOS is only there as long as the Setup is left as is. The vast
majority of system boards still in use today have a triple pin switch to reset the
BIOS to its defaults, and all you must do is move the jumper ftom the two pins it
is on now, onto the only other pair you can change it to, wait for a count of thirty,
and put the jumper back again.
If you cannot locate the reset jumper, or you have a very old, or very non-standard
system, you can also remove the battery that backs up the "CMOS" and leave that out
overnight, which will do the same thing. Either way, the default setting has no
BIOS Password.
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Kiwi
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On Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 8:51 am, Gary wrote:
> ... also have the same problem of needing a password
in the Bios settings
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re: Pc Won't Reboot
Friday, November 25, 2005 at 10:30 am
Posted by Jeff
(957 messages posted)
On a working PC, go to bootdisk.com and download the correct boot disk setup for
your version of Windows 98.
Run the set up and follow the instructions to create the bootdisk.
Now insert it into the floppy drive of the non-working PC. When you start the PC
it should boot to floppy.
If it does not, you need to go into the BIOS to change the boot sequence to boot
from floppy (diskette)first.
To reset BIOS, follow instructions already posted. (Jumper or remove CMOS battery)
Post back with results.
Jeff
On Wednesday, November 23, 2005 at 8:51 am, Gary wrote:
>When I try to reboot it just goes to the ESCD check and says i have the wrong disk
>or something to replace the disk and try again and never goes to A:/ prompt...I
used
>Ms Dos and windows 95 reboot disk and nothing works...I formatted drive C and was
>going to load Windows 98 SE..I think I erased Windows 95 and don't know what to
do
>now because the system won't reboot..i also have the same problem of needing a password
>in the Bios settings and don't know the password? Can anyone help me?
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