In article , "Sune
Storgaard" wrote:

Blaedmon mumbled his insignificant opinion in:


. If not, you
can also make yourself a bootdisk with its own autoexec.bat which
auto-runs the default or upgraded bios file on the same disk, then
remove the offending machines videocard and boot. Sensing no card,
the machine should check the floppy and de-lobotomise itself with
some luck

Im not familiar with that practise, can you elaborate that a bit?

Just checked with the (tiny) manual for my x-x board, and that method isnt
described in there. Is it just the x-x series that tries to boot with no vga
card, despite the faulty bios ?

Seems a little strange to me the board will suddenly boot this way?

The BIOS has two sections. One part is the "boot block", which has
just enough code to boot from a floppy. If the boot block is still
intact, then the autoexec trick will work. There would be some hope
if, without the video card, the motherboard tried to access the floppy.
Based on the OPs description of a repetitive sound coming out of the
speakers, I'd say it is badflash or hotflash time.

Paul