When you reset the BIOS via the motherboard jumper, it changed all sorts
of settings.  One of particular interest is whether ACPI is enabled or not;
Windows detects this setting and installs differently depending on whether
it is enabled or not.  I'm guessing that since you used the jumper, its
setting in the BIOS is different from what it was when Windows was
installed.  Try changing it to the other setting.

David Gillett


On 6 Dec 2004 at 12:44, Phillip Williams wrote:

>  Greetings Gurus,
>  With the great help from so many of you, I got my first build project up and
> running. After a few weeks of "low-key" usage, I decided to put it to the
> test and loaded the DOOM3 game. Although the first 3 or 4 tries kept hanging up
> when I put in the 3rd cd, it finally loaded. but when I started the game it
> would load the game up to the point of playing then kick me back to windows
> desktop with a grey background instead of the image that's usually there. DOOM 3 is
> a very demanding game as far as the graphics, bitmapping, shading, etc. so I
> figured the agp settings needed to be adjusted. Due to my impatient
> "get-r-done" state of mind, instead of trying one change at a time, I changed 3 or 4
> different settings both in the card and the bios such as apeture (4x to 8x since
> my card is supposed to opperate at either) and another "speed" setting from
> normal to turbo. When I rebooted, I didn't even get a signal to my monitor so I
> couldn't get into bios to restore previous settings. Sooo... next I used the
> mobo jumper to reset the bios(?) and was able to get a signal to monitor and
> enter the bios. No matter what settings I try (last working, failsafe,normal)
> Windows won't load. If I try failsafe or last working, it acts as though it's
> loading and the progress bar moves from left to right as it should but when it
> gets all the way across (a solid bar) it hangs there and does no more.
>  Will I need to re-install windows since I used the mobo jumper? not sure
> where to go from here.
>    -Soyo sy-P4I865PE plus dragon2 mobo
>    -P4 3.2 ht processor
>    -ATI all-in-wonder 9800 pro
>    -Corsair xms 1 gig (x2) memory
>    Sony crx 230a-u cd writer
>
>      TIA!
>   Phillip Williams
>
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