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Here's a weird problem.
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| acruth7284 2005-05-06, 2:02 am |
| I'll share my latest experience with you guys in hopes of it helping someone else out. I was trying to install Windows Server 2003 180 day trial on to an old HP 500 MHz Celeron (hey, it meets the minimum requirements) for study purposes. Unfortunately when it finished loading it never detected my NIC. So I restart the system in hopes of it being a fluke (not the cable tester). Now I get a conflicting IRQ error from my POST screen. I go into my BIOS and everything checks out. I save my changes and exit and then the system doesn't make it to the POST. So to sum up a long story (swap card to different PCI bus, reset CMOS, etc.) I finally decided to take the $3.50 dive and buy a new CMOS battery and then it was good. Moral of the story, I need to get me a VOM...wait I mean Windows hates low CMOS batteries...wait don't use old HPs as servers...ok well maybe there isn't a moral, but maybe this will help someone with a problem they come across in the future. | |
| enforcer 2005-05-06, 12:13 pm |
| Here's a something I'd like to share with you.
Use a more descriptive thread title. | |
| Redstar 2005-05-08, 12:13 am |
| I think it was a weird problem... | |
| F.N.G 2005-05-15, 12:32 pm |
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Originally posted by acruth7284
...wait don't use old HPs as servers...ok well maybe there isn't a moral, but maybe this will help someone with a problem they come across in the future.
...yeah but intell made the celeron cpu and probably the motherboard...and micro$oft the op sys ...HP just outsourced(like Compaq)..your statement seems to say don't use intell and micro$oft products .I think it may be the device drivers for the cards(third party software)...first time I've heard a cmos battery being replaced ..they seem to last for ever. | |
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| hmmmm 500mghz, well it seems to run server software with no problems b.t.w celerons were destined for the low end of the market...i had a celeron 400...I paid $1200 at the time for it in 1999...sheesh at todays price a 2+ gig pentium 4 with extras (i should have waited)... | |
| acruth7284 2005-05-16, 12:14 pm |
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I think it may be the device drivers for the cards(third party software)...first time I've heard a cmos battery being replaced ..they seem to last for ever.
Well it obviously couldn't have been a device driver problem because the card was not being detected. That just shouts out hardware problem (definitely be able to tell the difference since you are going for A+ because it will make any future jobs you have much easier). And I blame the dead CMOS battery on the fact that it was a 7 year old computer that was not kept in a climate controlled envrionment (especially in Ohio where we have seen 80 degree weather and snow with in the same 24 hours within the past month).
Sorry Enforcer, how about "Weird problem with an HP machine and a D-Link NIC card that really ended up being a problem with a dead CMOS battery and I would have known this if I contacted a computer expert or the computer manufacturer"  | |
| enforcer 2005-05-16, 1:17 pm |
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Originally posted by acruth7284
Sorry Enforcer, how about "Weird problem with an HP machine and a D-Link NIC card that really ended up being a problem with a dead CMOS battery and I would have known this if I contacted a computer expert or the computer manufacturer"
Less of the waffle and it would be fine  | |
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Originally posted by F.N.G
[B.I think it may be the device drivers for the cards(third party... . [/B]
ignore this part of my post...the op sys has to detect the hardware then demand the device driver if not... hardware problem....sorry acruth7284 i stand/sit corrected.  | |
| acruth7284 2005-05-19, 3:47 pm |
| No prob...its good practice for you to get those straight especially since you are going for your A+. Of course I do make the occasional mistake now and then too. |
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