Originally posted by Viper Zero
You have to be very careful in what you say, Akira. Computers are relatively new to most people and they will believe anything and everything you'll say to them. A CMOS battery keeps track of time when the power to the rest of the computer is off. What does the CMOS battery have anything to do with a boot/hard drive problem? Spiting out random information is not helpful.
Turbosmoke most likely forgot to transfer the system files to his hard drive after he formatted.
I'm not too sure, but i believe you are wrong. The CMOS battery keeps track of all settings in bios, not JUST time. Otherwise, where do the settings get stored?
Turbo, check for bent/broken pins on the motherboard and floppy connectors.
Waht you can try to do is just remove the RAM, remove the video card, and disconnect any drive cables from the motherboard (a P1 mobo is just begging to die). See if it beeps. If it does, this is a good sign. Try plugging something back in such as RAM. If it still beeps, then plug the video card back in. If it continues beeping try reconnecting the motherboard cables and such.. See if it boots.
I'm not sure, due to the fact that im not a technician, but if all else fails, try hooking up the motherboard to another (old) computer and see if it still does this. If it still doesnt work its most likely the motherboard.
Oh, one more thing. Have you tried manually removing the CMOS battery and resetting everything?
Once again, i'm not a tech, but these are just some tips you can try.
Sorry if i can't be more help to you.
