Setting bios to defaults causes no harm, and would be how your sys was
origonally supplied
By clean install, you did delete your partition (at least the origonal win
partition) format, using the wincd, and not a third party tool?


"Sofa Slug" <sofaslug403spamnot@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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>> "Sofa Slug" <sofaslug403spamnot@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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>> news:1I_2k.6154$co7.4440@nlpi066.nbdc.sbc.com...
>>> I'm trying to do a clean install. Right after setup finishes
>>> copying/initializing, the screen goes black. No cursor - nothing. I've
>>> tried a couple more times, but no go.
>>>
>>> If you have any ideas, please respond.
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> > Rich Barry wrote:
> > Get into the Bios and set it to Default Settings.
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> I'm kind of reluctant to try that ...I've never had BIOS problems before
> and I don't want to mess anything up. The machine was working fine for
> years, then recently started booting to a STOP: c000021a {Fatal System
> Error}. That's the reason for the new install.
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