Mr Motivator Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Well, I turned my old PC on and it said "system battery dead, replace and enter SETUP"... "Press F1 to continue.. F2 to enter setup" I hit F1 to continue and it said "operating system not found"! Duh. So, restart and then hit F2, I set the primary boot to C then A, from A then C. and saved the changes, put in my XP disk, resarted and nothing happened. It just went back to "system battery dead, replace and enter SETUP"... "Press F1 to continue.. F2 to enter setup". Nice one. So I went back into the setup and the changes hadn't been saved! I tried a few more times with still no luck. I guess that the changes could not be saved once the PC is switched off because the battery is dead? So yeah, helpage anyone? Or is it actually dead? Don't know if this helps?; Bill Gates give me my win95 back, it's mine!! Smooooth, Sam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
on that? u must be joking Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Replace the little button battery on your motherboard and try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted September 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Ah; The little devil is soldered in! Next.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
haydon_peter Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Are you sure thats not just a clip holding it in place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicky Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Ah; The little devil is soldered in! Next.. those batterys are lithium, if a lithium battery dies then that's really not a good sign. New motherboard's in order i say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted September 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 I'm not that dumb lol :D It's got a long pointy thing on the bottom of it which is soldered down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Its a 486 god dam it :D does anyone use them anymore? Throw it out of an upper floor window and watch it make a big bang on the floor ;) You best bet is to get some new bits off ebay cheap :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted September 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Plan 2; I used some random wires coming out of the power box thing that went to nothing so cut them off and taped them to a watch battory. Now I'm gonna tape the other ends of the wires to the existing bat :sleeping: I'll let you know what happens.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicky Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 and that kids, is how to blow a hole in your bedroom wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Motivator Posted September 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 We are BACK in business lads, it worked!!!! I have win95 back too! w00t! Next question, how do I install winXP? What do I have to set the PC to before I turn it off etc? Will it del everything automaticly? Sam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 that was made a good 10 years before xp came out , good luck , 640 k of ram lmfao Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biketrialler Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 haha, funny shit, bin the computer its not good enough to do anything these days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaXsteri Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Windows XP System Requirements • PC with 300 megahertz or higher processor clock speed recommended; 233 MHz minimum required • 128 megabytes (MB) of RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported; may limit performance and some features) • 1.5 gigabytes (GB) of available hard disk space • Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution video adapter and monitor • CD-ROM or DVD drive • Keyboard and Microsoft Mouse or compatible pointing device Not going to happen. Its is possible to install XP on a lower spec PC by putting the hard drive in a PC that meets the requirements and then swapping the hard drive back. BUT it is pointless, there is a reason for the minimum requirements :sleeping: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freddie Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 LMAO Sam I can't believe you're actually bothering to try and set that thing up. :sleeping: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkee Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 oh the memories, my first pc was a 486, 3mb ram (upgraded to 11.. yes they did 8mb sticks back in the day), 50mhz processor, 112 mb hard drive. I used to play red alert and command and conquer on that beast. Get yours working! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Not going to happen. Its is possible to install XP on a lower spec PC by putting the hard drive in a PC that meets the requirements and then swapping the hard drive back. That won't work. Firstly XP installs all the driver settings so when you change hardware completely it won't know what to do. Secondly XP has a kind of copy protection thing in it to prevent you doing exactly that, so it remembers your CPU/motherboard/maybe a few other things. If any of these change you have to reinstall I believe. Anyway, WinXP is crap on a 1 GHz Pentium, let alone a 486 :sleeping: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaXsteri Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 It does work. You can remove the old driver settings in the registry or you can just leave it and let it sort itself out which it does fine, and corporate versions do not have product activation so no problems there. But it’s not worth it as I said, and probably wouldn’t work on a 486. But I have had Windows XP running on a Pentium 200MHz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 It does work. You can remove the old driver settings in the registry or you can just leave it and let it sort itself out which it does fine, and corporate versions do not have product activation so no problems there. But it's not worth it as I said, and probably wouldn't work on a 486. But I have had Windows XP running on a Pentium 200MHz Yeah, but a 200MHz Pentium is still about 5 times faster than a 486 :sleeping: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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