jmet Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 I change the BIOS to boot from CD. Upon rebooting, my BIOS hangs for about 60 seconds, then proceeds to load. When it says press any key to boot from CD, I then press a key. It then goes to a black screen that says "Setup is inspecting your configuration" (or something close to that). It never loads. or I just didn't wait long enough. I waited for like 10 min. There is no activity light blinking either. What could be wrong?
cornholio7 Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 what type of hdd is it?IDE or SATA, can you boot from your hdd? have you got another cd/dvd drive you can use and check your jumpers is the cpu overclocked?
chewy Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 bad cd, bad memory or just a wrong setting in bios
jmet Posted February 8, 2006 Author Posted February 8, 2006 Well, the problem was a bad stick of RAM. Removed it then tried it again and it went as smooth as pie.
kirk1701™ Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 Well, the problem was a bad stick of RAM. Removed it then tried it again and it went as smooth as pie. Did you try just reseating the memory module JMet? It might still be good just got jarred loose.
jmet Posted February 8, 2006 Author Posted February 8, 2006 No I didn't, I think I will just hold off until I can buy another stick of the same brand.
Movie Junkie Posted February 8, 2006 Posted February 8, 2006 No I didn't, I think I will just hold off until I can buy another stick of the same brand.Depending on the manufacturer it might have a lifetime warranty on it. Several of the large RAM dealers (Crucial, Mushkin and Kingston come to mind).
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