[ILUG] Fwd: Bios Bother [SlightlyOT]

[Pablo El Vagabundo]

Hi again,

Sorry for not being clear, I blame work for
distracting me..


Anyway i transfered the TV card out of the computer
with the funny bios startup. So the TV card wont be
causing the problem.

The computer is a celeron400, the motherboard has the
810 intel graphics and an award bios..

Could dust be causing it <its 2 years old>? It just
seems to be a corruption of the video display, if i
boot to dos I can and i type the corruption is the
same. And it is consistant. Can i replace the bios
chip?

Thx for the response.. So as not to bog down the list,
maybe you should reply to me personnally..

pab


 --- Pablo El Vagabundo <pablo8itall at yahoo.ie> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 15:35:28 +0100 (BST)
> From: Pablo El Vagabundo <pablo8itall at yahoo.ie>
> Subject: Bios Bother [SlightlyOT]
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Just put together a box with Luvy mandrake8.2,
> detected everything and its all going swimmingly.
> 
> My old box i was going to get rid of redmundoz and
> install , guess wot, 8.2..
> 
> Anyway after transferinhg my tv card to my new comp
> and rebooting my bios screen is all weird, instead
> of
> the normal "award bios" i get "a$.rsd b-2s" the
> screen
> is laid out as it was but character are sustituted.
> the initall dos boot up of windows is simarly
> corrupt.
> But about from some curruption on the windows98
> graphic, windows runs fine.
> 
> I tried flashing the bios, but that went okay but
> made
> no difference. This ever happened to anyone? Any
> IdeaS?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Pab 
> 
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