Replaced battery, now goes to POST &am...

Aug 15, 2009

- Hi, mobo is MS-7043 Ver. 100. It was suggested by the computer shop who built the computer for me that the board itself is faulty.(?) Other info: VIA Tech VT8237, 4.31; Amibios 3.31a; Celeron 2.8 ghz. If the mobo is faulty I would like to replace it but don't know what MS board would fit and run IDE's? If I get new board I would fit hard disks and run Drive Image to load. Many thanks for help.

Aug 17, 2009

- Hi, battery, 'no hot swap', I thought if power was connected to computer the BIOS retained settings but then told hot swap was needed. I am worried about clearing the BIOS - this computer has to be operational Mon-Fri - I would rather, say, replace mobo and then I would, if all goes wrong, be able to get back to where I was. I still don't understand why I need RAID? - although it is shown in my other computer under D\Manager but I thought this was because I have a SCSI scanner. My thoughts at the moment are to get a new case & mobo and build the old computer into it with adaptors for SATA to IDE. Thanks for interest and any more thoughts.