It wouldn't be bios erased if you have any actions occurring (you are getting beeps, got the ram error message, etc).

1. can you go into bios at all?

2. Try booting from a floppy and see if you...

You may want to try loading a 98 floppy.....get to dos and run scandisk c: and see if any errors...if so and they get fixed, then try booting.

Now, if that does not work, get to dos again and try...

If you are in the USA, I can usually get them fixed for about $300 plus shipping. If interested, you could PM me....

I am homing in on the problem....as bama.mal eluded to, connections can be troublesome in general. I had take all apart and it hadn't helped.....

Then all of a sudden the pc started working - got...

Guess I would (1) check BIOS and ensure the new card is noted and the internal card is disabled (2) reseat the new card

finally, if you paid CC to do the install of the card, bring it back to...

Here's a fun one....looking for confirmation. I have a Pavilion 750C. I purchased some memory (which is what I suspect, but read on) - PC2100, 256K from CompUSA.

I installed the stick (the PC had...