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February 6th, 2008 13:00
Weird error message on boot. BIOS error?
I’m working on a system with the following motherboard:
Board: ECS K7S5A 1.0
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 04/02/01
And I am getting this message when trying to boot up.
RPL-ROM-ADR: 0007 950B BA24
RPL-ROM_IRQ: 11
RPL-ROM-PIO: DC00
RPL-ROM-FFC: 5
Searching for Boot Record from floppy… Not Found
Searching for Boot Record from CDROM… Not Found
Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0… Not Found
Searching for Boot Record from SCSI… Not Found
Boot Failure
Insert BOOT diskette in A:
Press any key when ready
I’m kind of confused because I just did a clean install of XP Home, downloaded all of the Hotfixes, and everything was fine until I just turned it on the other day and got the above message. No major changes were made.
Thanks in advance,
Dave
Majestic
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February 6th, 2008 14:00
The first step in trying to resolve the problem is to replace the battery on the motherboard. Given the age of the system, if the battery was never replaced, the battery may have failed. A bad battery would cause the loss of the hardware configuration information at boot up like you are experiencing.
A new 3-Volt, CR2032, coin cell battery can be purchased for around $3 (US) and is available at any Radio Shack, computer stores and most discount stores like Wal-Mart.
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February 6th, 2008 15:00
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February 6th, 2008 16:00
No need to apologize...... we were all newbies at one time or another. :smileywink:
The only dumb question is one that is never asked.