I was doing a layout for a couple of coraplast signs and only had the text up for a second.When a warning came up and said the protection for dos was failing-screne went black.Help please!!!!!Whats-up Posted by Richard Bustamante (Member # 370) on :
Randy You'll have to give us(me) more info...
Does it turn on at all? Is the fan in the back going? (power supply)
Do you get the BIOS window?
Have you recently had work done to your puter?
Does it start with a boot disk?
Is it MAC or PC?
What kind of puter is it? (laptop, desktop)
Is there any other symptoms? (screen wavy)
Whats your operating system?
--Richard Bustamante Nevada City, California www.signsinthepines.com Posted by Randy Campbell (Member # 2675) on :
desk top- windows 98 p133 tower turns on and at first so did monitor.Now monitor is black-someone told me my board is crashing-system is 9 years old.Will I be able to save my hard drives???tower turns on and fan works.Hope it helps???
Posted by Raymond Quick (Member # 2649) on :
When you buy a new computer have them install your old hard drive as a second drive. You should be able to access your files that way. If you have another computer just have the old hard drive installed in it as a second drive. With a windows pc you probaly can only use a drive from a windows pc, not sure about a mac.
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Sounds like the motherboard is/has failed. Hard drives should be OK. Take it to your local computer guru, and have him build you a newone, and install the hard drives in the new one.If the hard drives are also old, have him copy them onto newer ones.
You have gotten your money's worth out of a 9 year old computer!
Posted by bronzeo (Member # 1408) on :
Randy, I would pull the HD and take it to someone to read as a slave and see what you have. If it has all your filework, I would go get a new system and slave it to it and copy the files to the new HD. It's time...... Jack
Posted by Randy Campbell (Member # 2675) on :
Thank a whole bunch - will look for new one.
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
Keep in mind if you get a new machine that you may need to keep win95/98 on it to run your programs. Being so old they may not run on winXP.
Posted by Richard Bustamante (Member # 370) on :
Do you get any beeping noises when you start up?
A single short beep reflects normal.
Three long beeps signify memory.
One long, and two short beeps; video.
This could be a number of things, including BIOS chip, Processor, heat, and so on.
If you like I have hundreds of old processors, and if you need one, let me know, I'll send you one. I have an Intel 133MHz, and all the way up to 266MHz.
I have a machine thats been around since 1987, a 286/16MHz. Runs like a champ still. All I use it for is a print and plotter server.
Also I have a machine for sale. Its a PIII/500Mhz with 64MB RAM, I'll let it go for cheep. You can probibly use you old monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
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