Greeting,

I'm in the middle of my first real hardware  problem and don't have a clue
where to go from here.  I have a PIII 450 192MB RAM on an Abit BX6-2.
Suddenly today it started acting screwy.  I got a couple of blue screens
with vxd errors.  I shut down it down and it wouldn't reboot. It posts and
gets to "verifying dmi pool - update success" and then just stops.  I assume
at this  point it is supposed to look for a boot drive..  It won't boot from
a floppy, it won't boot form the hard drive if I change the order.  I have
changed the memory, the processor, and cleared the CMOS.  I  don't have a
clue on what to do next.  Start taking things out?  It acts like it doesn't
know what to do next.  Could I have corrupted my bios somehow?
Any help would be
greatly appreciated.

Ben Moore

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