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After clearing CMOS Compaq Presario 5340 will not boot
The computer just sits there at the COMPAQ splat screen. I have tried F10 to get into the Bios and Compaq Tech Support said to try the Delete key, but that did not work ether. When I turn on the computer I can see that the bios is looking at the harddrive (HDD light comes on). Before all this begain I had installed Windows 2000 and the drives are now NTSF. Before the system had Windows 98 on it.
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Mod w/ an attitude
Pull the battery for 10 mins. then try it again.
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Stark Raving MOD
you need to eliminate the culprits. disconnect the drives. remove any expansion cards except for the video card.
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Thanks for your help, I returned everything back to normal and it then booted. What started this whole mess was I noticed that the FSB frequency was fluctuating. I read that clearing the CMOS might normalize it so to speak. Will it did not work. This is an old machine: K6-3 400 at 472.5MHz (105 x 4.5), very stable. It has 384 Meg of ram and runs Windows 2000 great. I’m using Sandra and CPU-Z to measure the frequency and I’m wondering if maybe I should try some other programs. Does anyone have any idea as to some other programs I could try to measure the FSB and the CPU frequencies?
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Stark Raving MOD
The FSB is always fluctuating a little bit. I think you're worrying about nothing. CPUZ is probably the best CPU only diag.
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It is fluctuating a lot, all the way to 0 sometimes. Very strange, I have never seen a motherboard do this before. That is why I was looking to compair the programs I am using now to some other programs.
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Stark Raving MOD
whoa. ok. a few mhz is normal, but something is wacky. that is a really old system, so it could be the psu or mb going bad.
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I downloaded WCPUID and it reports the FSB and the CPU running at the correct frequencies. I do not understand why Sandra and PCPitstop.com report the FSB at next to nothing. Very strange! Anyone have any ideas as to what is going on?
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