Hey guys, I'm trying to get an old SKT775 machine (Q6600) going for a project, but I'm running in to an issue. The board/cpu and ram were pulled from a working PC around six months ago and stored.
First bootup went fine; it complained about missing CMOS settings but that was expected since it'd been unplugged for so long. Made minimal changes in the BIOS (mostly date/time and disable floppy drive) and saved/exited.
After saving and exiting it failed to post, nothing on the screen and cycling the CPU fan high/low with every post attempt. After a while it posted to a failsafe message saying previous boot failed, reset CMOS setting. I did this and rebooted, but the same thing happened again (continuous post attempts, finally erroring out).
I tried turning everything off and clearing the CMOS, but even if I don't change any BIOS settings (save and exit straight away on first setup) it still fails to boot the second time.
Anyone have any ideas?
First bootup went fine; it complained about missing CMOS settings but that was expected since it'd been unplugged for so long. Made minimal changes in the BIOS (mostly date/time and disable floppy drive) and saved/exited.
After saving and exiting it failed to post, nothing on the screen and cycling the CPU fan high/low with every post attempt. After a while it posted to a failsafe message saying previous boot failed, reset CMOS setting. I did this and rebooted, but the same thing happened again (continuous post attempts, finally erroring out).
I tried turning everything off and clearing the CMOS, but even if I don't change any BIOS settings (save and exit straight away on first setup) it still fails to boot the second time.
Anyone have any ideas?