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eMachine Frozen BIOS Boot screen
eMachine 6216 being reimaged, rebooted to frozen eMachine splash screen, won't POST,
No F keys respond. CMOS battery pulled, replaced: same thing.
Update: Pulled HD power, can enter BIOS setup, even boot a disk. This supposedly means HD is bad, however HD will start up when slaved to another PC.
Swapped cables with known-good OD which had just booted disk, HD still blocks POST, freezing at Emachine screen.
Solution: Next I swapped in a known-good HD and it started up so I knew prob had to be limited to the HD. But since it started up in the other machine it didn't seem to be a bad HD. Could it be that HD (boot) code might be blocking this BIOS from even POSTing? I wanted to test this so slave the HD again to the other machine and Cleaned it with Diskpart.
Sure enough when returned to the eMachine it allowed BIOS to post, so I booted installer and reinstalled 7. Since it was during reimaging that this boot code apparently futzed the BIOS the image is getting deleted. And I thought I'd gotten a copied image to reimage over the network - wrong!
Last edited by gregrocker; 17 Oct 2011 at 10:03.