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Won't Boot - Freezes during startup @ VIDEO BIOS

Nov 30, 2003 9:19AM PST

Yesterday, my PC worked fine.

Today, it freezes during startup on the line:

VIDEO BIOS SHADOWED

Tried gently removing, then re-placing video card, sound card, etc, but no go.

BASIC SYSTEM INFO0:

Radeon 9600 Pro
Dual Gig Processor
2GB Ram

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.


Ledmills.

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Try less parts.
Nov 30, 2003 9:32AM PST

Such as no hard disks. If you have a floppy, keep it and try to boot a diskette.

Bob

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Re:Try less parts.
Dec 1, 2003 3:46PM PST

Hmn.

No floppy, only internal drives.

Will remove and re-assemble existing hard drives to see if that does it.

L.

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Re:couple of ideas
Dec 1, 2003 8:05PM PST