You don't mention whether or not you cleared the BIOS either by shorting the
jumper or removing and replacing the battery.  This will reset the CMOS and
pehaps get rid of some of your problems.

----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Fisk <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 2:47 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Epson ActionTower 8200


> Hi;
>
>  I'm working on a client's Epson Pent. 75
> the mobo is apparently an Elitegroup SI54P VIO Phoenix Bios.
> Can't get it to boot (win 95b)other than safe mode.
> No apparent conflicts in device manager.
> I removed everything but video (on board S3) and memory, same problem.
> And the floppy doesn't work, tried a new cable and drive - no joy
> I get a "Diskette drive address conflict" on bootup.
> I can't find any jumpers or bios settings to adjust the "drive address"
> Get this error even when the floppy controller is disabled.
> and no floppy is installed in bios.
> tried reseting to bios defaults, no joy
> I suspect a corrupt bios, any ideas?

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