Glen,
> There really is still Pac Bell tech support? I'm amazed! :)
>

Well sort of. NEC has some third line tech on chat that reads verbatim out
of a tech manual. No deviation. In my case it was to tough for him so of
course he was trying to re-direct my problem to their Premium Pay Service of
course.
As for this computer I told the client that it went away. I ended up selling
her
an old 200 pentium I was using as a backup to a backup..... I don't think
that changing the bios would normally result in this. I think there was a
terminal inherent problem with the MOBO and it finally went .

Barry Clark
MCSE
----- Original Message -----
From: Glenn Josephson <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 3:26 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] IS THE MOBO DEAD???


> Barry,
> WPEs are almost always caused by memory problems. I don't know. Pac Bells
> had a weird custom BIOS anyway, so it could be at least part of the
problem.
> There really is still Pac Bell tech support? I'm amazed! :)
>
> Glenn
>
> > Glen,
> > Thanks for the suggestion & Happy 4th : )
> > I thought about that before writing to the group and have concluded that
> the
> > battery probably isn't the culprit since it was working fine last night
> > until I changed that setting in bios.
> > Since there is no recognition by beeping on boot of the onboard ram
> missing
> > after I pulled it wouldn't that lead you to believe that this is a case
of
> a
> > major bios issue?
> > I will get into contact with Packard Bell tech support via chat and find
> out
> > what type of battery it is tomorrow and hopefully where it is located.
It
> > isn't readily accessible as is everything else in this ancient case and
> with
> > no documents or manuals it is like flying virtually blind.
>
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