Emachine won’t boot. When power is applied, the keyboard leds and the hard drive led blink. That’s it, no output to monitor, no beeps from cpu. Through troubleshooting I have found I can boot by removing the CMOS battery and power to the hard drive. When I have these removed and I apply power, nothing blinks. Then when I hit the fron panel button, the system starts to boot and I get at the monitor an indication that there was a CMOS checksum error and that I can continue or run setup. If at this point I plug the power into the hard drive and continue, I get an OS not found error. If I then do a alt-cntrl-del the computer will boot and be totally functional. Any ideas. I have already replaced the power supply and CMOS battery. I also let the system sit overnight with no battery installed. Still same symptom and strange bootup procedure that works.
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Jump to PostWhat you're talking about is corrupted CMOS caused by almost-dead CMOS battery.
If replacing a battery did not help, try setting up BIOS, sence it had lost all the settings the moment you removed the battery. There is one crucial setting that can cause the "os not found error" placed …
Jump to PostYou falshed wrong BIOS. Only way to correct (by your self) that problem is to make a boot floppy disc that should look like this:
autoexec.bat
config.sys
io.sys
msdos.sys
command.com
awdflash.exe (flashing program)
12345678.bin (BIOS file)
delete "config.sys" - it can …
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