3dvisioner
August 4th, 2003, 06:45 PM
Alright, it's me again with another problem. I'm gonna try to search all the bright minds out there to hopefully find an answer. Unfortunately I don't have much information to provide and I'm hoping for someone to help based on the information I can give. I recieved an old computer from someone who just wanted to get rid of an old computer he doesn't use anymore. It's pentium II 400mhz with 128mb ram. The motherboard is manufactured by intel. If someone out there has a motherboard by intel maybe they get the same thing I get. When I turn on the computer, it just displays this logo "motherboard manufactured by intel" across the whole screen and it stays there for a few minutes and then tries to boot the os. It doesn't show the memory check, boot sequence, etc., just this logo so I can't see it boot up. I also can't enter cmos by pressing del cuz' the option simply isn't there. Now when I got this computer, it was jacked, well, the guy had gotten a virus on his hd so bad it erased everything on his hd so I'm trying to reinstall windows xp on it. But when I put in the windows xp cd in the cd-rom, it won't boot from the windows xp cd. I know the cd-rom is working cuz' i can read the cd via entering does from a bootdisk, so i'm thinking the boot sequence disabled booting from the cd-rom drive. I need to enter cmos to enable this, or is there another way? Anyway, anyone with these kind of motherboards know how I can enter cmos or some setup screen to modify the boot sequence settings? Thanks.