I suspect your onboard battery has died. Check your bios/cmos settings in
setup (F2 as the 'puter boots). If everything is gone, reset all the
settings (hopefully you know them). Reboot, and if the settings are gone
again....dead battery. Time to replace.
TomC

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> From: Robert Cooke <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [PCBUILD] Packard Bell hard drive trouble
> Date: Monday, July 02, 2001 8:08 PM
>
> I have a Packard Bell 133mhz,8mb Ram,1.3Gig Hard drive. Running
PhoenixBios 4.04 and windows 95. Not sure which version of 95. WHen I boot
it without a boot disk it gives a message (operating system not found).I
have tried the 95 boot disk and get a message (non-sytem disk or disk error
.Replace disk and strike any key when ready.)Then I tried a 98 boot
disk.With the 98 boot disk ,I can get to the start menu.I tried both
options,with and without cd-support.It says trying to start windows this
might take a few minutes.Then it gives a message (drive c does not contain
a valid fat or fat32 partition).Then lists 3 possible causes. 1.May need to
be partitioned. 2.Third party disk partitioning software. 3.Some viruses
cause the drive c not to register. I have tried to fdisk ,and get a message
(no fixed disks present).I took the cover off
>  just to make sure that the hard drive was there and it is.When this
thing starts to boot it finds the CD-Rom and mouse ,but also shows the
processor at 75mhz. Please help.
>
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