The BIOS is the earliest setup screen for the computer and is accessed by pressing the "Delete" Key or one of the "F#" keys (usually F1 or F2). Three out of three replies point out the keyboard as one of the first things to check, have you checked it?
First thing I'd do is disconnect all usb devices and also be sure to check or swap the kweyboard. Can you get into BIOS Setup? Next reseat the RAM sticks. Then one at a time remove add on cards except video card and attempt power up for each one. (best in the order they were added) Keep removing items in this fashion until the beeping stops. This includes all internal drives and switches (other than the power switch) as well. When beeping stops note the last item removed and check condition or replace that item. you can go all the way to just motherboard, power supply, and power switch. If you get all the way to this point then it is one of the two motherboard or power supply.
Note: Try holding power switch for about 4 seconds to turn off without unplugging. (This is not recommended when booted into any operating system as it is the equivalent of unplugging as implemented by motherboard.)
Hey everyone kruser here (newbie) just joined today asus MB a7n8x=e deluxe, windows xp I'm trying to rebuild an old system, mostley used parts but all working last time they were used. All new memory, new AGP graphics card(ati raedon 1650) everything else is used. Athlon xp 3000+ cpu, 3g ram. I'm trying to boot from my old harddrive from another computer, everything goes well, recognises hardrive etc. but when booting up I just get a faint windows logo screen then the computer tries to reboot again. Tried to boot from the windows xp disc smae thing happens except when the logo screen comes up the computer shuts off. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, kruser
I just had very similar symptoms and it turned out the hard drive had too many read errors. I had those symptoms even running from a Knoppix disk then ran a Ubuntu disk and it reported read errors over and over I tested drive as a secondary drive in another computer and it would recognize the drive in the BIOS but windows disk management couldnt see it and Knoppix couldn't mount it. I replaced the drive and everything worked perfectly.
problem is in a couple of error message during set-up. #1 "workgroup administer - setup couldn't create a system mdw file after setup is complete reboot your computer then run workgroup administrator before you run this application (-1011)" It then said "MSJRCLR.DLL was unagle to register itself in the system register" Final message "Setup not completed successfully". When I try to open access (only application I needed) the computer said "out of memory" I have 3.00 gb ram and auto set of virtual memory has allocated 3306 mb for pages... I don't think that there is a shortage of memory. What Next?
Try the run as administrator trick when starting Access.
I beta tested vista for a year before its release and it had a few nice things about it the most impressive was its ability to recover from fatal errors. The biggest drawbacks (especially after release) was that as in previous versions when the updated device drivers used to be included with the OS (XP is the best example) Vista included none of the peripheral hardware drivers with the OS. This action did big damage to Vista's reputation because when people bought a new computer with Vista and brought it home or to the office none of the peripherals would work. Then they would go to the manufacturer site to get a driver to find that there were no drivers for Vista available for older models. (imagine that) So it was then suggested they purchase new periphals by the manufacturers. This scenario was created due to a lack of completeness on Microsoft's part for allowing the periphal manufacturers to force the buyers of new computers to get new periphals and blame it on Vista. (Oh how they love it when a plan goes through) This created a lot of resentment in the community. then Vista changed the furnature around way too much without giving an easy way for more challenged users to find their way around. (similar to a blind man at home when someone changes the furnature and cabinets around)It now looks much more like my OS10x Macs and is closer to the same directory structure. This created more …
A trick I've used to get old software to work in Vista is to see what you can do to run the install as administrator. for instance locate the setup.exe file on the CD, Right click and hope that "Run as Administrator" is in the pop up menu so you can click it, then of course choose allow in the next dialog that appears. Hope this helps!
