[CLUE-Tech] bios forcing shutdown?

[Russell Glissmann]

Try reseting the BIOS to defaults.  This is usually done by a jumper
near the CMOS battery.  In most cases just unplug the AC, move the
jumper over for a few seconds, then move it back.  Plug in your AC and
see what happens.

Russ
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 17:16, Jason S. Friedman wrote:
> I'm trying to load a new OS onto my PC.  The PC had a CD
> reader, and CD reader/writer, and a hard drive.  I put the
> CD in the CD reader and turned on the computer and the
> machine ignored the CD and booted the existing OS.  I
> turned the machine off, turned it back on, and brought up
> the bios menu with the intention of adjusting the setting
> that tells bios which device I want to boot from (though I
> was surprised it did not read from the CD reader
> initially).
> 
> I must have adjusted something terribly wrong, because now
> when I boot my machine it comes on for a few seconds and
> then turns itself off!  I cannot even get to the bios
> screen in order to change the settings.
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