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shvarz:
Oh great!  My comuter has some serious problems.  I'll share in hope someone might have an idea:

I've had this K7S5A board for almost three years now, but recently something horrible happened and I can't figure out what's wrong.  maybe you guys can...  

Anyway, out of nowhere I started getting these weird crashes from Windows to BSD.  When I tried to re-boot, it would either give BSD, or stay quiet (not a single beep, no picture, nothing, just fans spinning) or load fine.  Mostly the first two.  I started pulling out hardware to try to figure out what's causing this.  And at some point (when it was the "quiet" phase) I reset BIOS and was able to boot.  That worked a couple of more times.  But then it just went to "quiet" again and now nothing could revive it.

I read some stuff on boards about how CMOS battery could go bad, so I stopped by RadioShack today and got a new battery: immediately computer went to "one beep and load Windows".  Yay!  But it can't load Windows now (I have win 2K Pro)!  During load I get BSD, which says that my BIOS is not "fully compatible with ACPI" and how I need to do this and that during install to avoid this message.

I went back to the old battery, but the symptoms are the same...  What do I do now?  What can be causing this?  I am kinda thinking about changing MB, but I've been lazy about following tech news and at this point have no clue what I should buy.  Anyway, would be nice to get my old K7S5A back and running at least for a while...

Ulciscor:
Have you tried clearing the CMOS while using the new battery?

Numsgil:
Have you tried getting a new computer.   :lol:

I suppose that's not helpful.  Perhaps you need to upgrade your BIOS?

Shen:
That sounds suspiciously like some sort of hardware failure. Could try a format to se if it helps, theres a small chance its just Windows decided to spray random files over your Hard drive. Do you have an original 2K CD?

Check Event Viewer in Start>Settings>Control Panels> Administrative Tools>Event Viewer. See if theres anything obviously bad in the system tab, like millions of errors.

If not its likely your mobo or memory. Gunna have to fork out £100 for new hardware. Hey cheer up! Buying new computer stuff is fun!

shvarz:
Ulciscor: Yes, many times.  At first it seemed to help, but then later that was not helping either.

Nums:  The BIOS was good enough before.  As I said, I had this board for almost 3 years with now problems until recently.  I did not do any recent upgrades or installs that could cause this.

Shen: I can't get to Windows!  The situation now is that board checks fine (single beep), starts loading Windows, then gives up saying that my BIOS is not fully ACPI-compliant.  Weird...

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