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by coopachi 1 view

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Recently a consultant upgraded my old Micron (P2 300 mhz)from 95 to 98se, in order for a Creative Labs CD-RW to work correctly. During the process he flashed the BIOS to the most current version. Everything appeared fine when he left. Several reboots showed nothing except that the BIOS doesn't like the A: drive. however, w/ a F1 to continue the machine completes the reboots and Windows finds the A: drive. Now, the most annoying part. I left for the weekend and turned the machine off. Now, it takes a very long time (hours) to boot. I have to press the TAB key for POST and then just walk away for. Micron will not help because it is not the original O/S. I have obtained a lesser version of the BIOS and am contemplating going back to 95. Any suggestions?
Also it has affected printing (anything intense). I have reinstalled the print drivers more than once.

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by dcosgrove

It sounds like bios setting trouble. When you flash a bios you have to clear the old settings and apply new ones. If you can get into the bios, try setting it to factory defaults and take it from there. All the problems you list can be caused by bios settings.

by dmiles

Open Device Manager and check for any device IRQ conflicts,then click on floppy,select properties and see if the floppy drive is loaded in dos mode to which you will want to reload the controller driver
The case may be that you did not consider upgrading the memory which may be an issue with 98se
Use MSCONFIG from the RUN box and see what programs are loading at startup,then determine the ones you donoot need to load at startup and uncheck
Go to Power Management in the Control P anel and disable
Going back to the previous version of 95 is possible ,but reflashing the BIOS may cause some problems,so make sure you have all the correct versions of operating system drivers.

by donmars

Did you try reinstalling the OS after the bios was flashed? Did this fellow clear cmos after flashing? He should have. Try clearing the bios memory and putting back the settings after, make notes of the settings before clearing. then if that does not fix it reinstall the OS.

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