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by jay7337

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Ok. P2 350. It passes post, then just sits at a flashing cursor. It will not boot to HD,floppy or Cd. I tried known good RAM and HD. The system detects both changes but will not boot. I have checked all connections. What am I missing?

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by mcazille

Try and swap out your video card with a known working card. Se if that helps you. good luck.

by thechas

Try replacing the CMOS backup battery, and resetting the CMOS.

When the battery gets week, it can cause the CMOS data to become corrupt.

Otherwise, it sounds like a bad CPU or motherboard.

Chas

by dmiles

Insert a Win 98 startup disk and boot system at command prompt type FDisk /mbr or from selection boot computer without cd-rom support,after the process is complete re-boot computer

As suggested you should also try downloading the updated drivers to kyour video card

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