First post, by that1crzywhtguy
Hello all, thanks in advance for any assitance.
I have a nice little P100 build that I've been using for a few years to play DOS games and some early windows games. Recently, my OS stopped functioning, so I attempted to reinstall. The install repetedly failed with errors pointing to bad ram. Eventually, the pc wouldn't even boot from cd or floppy. So I ordered some new simms. With those installed, no changes in behavior. Original simms restored, still no change. The computer posts fine, and I can go all through the bios settings assuring everything is configured correctly, but beyond that it sticks. After the post, I see the detected hard drives, floppies, and optical, but then the cursor just blinks until oblivion. I've tried multiple disks, multiple floppy drives, and even booting from optical. All just sticks on that blinking cursor. Because I was stuck, I decided to tear down the computer to bare bones. Currently, my P5HX-B motherboard has the p100 cpu, my s3 graphics, the ram, and one floppy connected. Still the same symptoms. Blink...Blink...Blink...
Is this motherboard toast, or am I maybe missing something small? Very frustrating situation over here... I just wanted to play some Quake II. 🙁
