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Averatec 3200: The lights & fans turn on, but the screen is completely black.

Sat, 04 Apr 2020 11:19:26 -0700

I purchased an Averatec 3200 off eBay. Once I plugged it in and turned it on, the fan and lights were on but the screen was completely black. I tried going into the bios, inserted a Windows XP install disc, and reseated the hard drive. Nothing has worked. Please help.

⟐ Commented April 04, 2020 at 11:19 MST

Averatec 3200: How do I reset this laptop

Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:45:50 -0700

I would like to know how to reset my laptop.. Its telling me it needs to be activated with micorsoft

⟐ Commented January 18, 2019 at 21:45 MST

Averatec 3200: CMOS/GPNV checksum bad- message on boot. I need to reconfig.

Sat, 23 Sep 2017 09:11:17 -0700

The hard drive crashed a long time ago. This was my girlfriends computer. I checked it out and installed a new 160 GB hard drive. It still didn't work and I just put it in a box. It sat for a long time and I think it has a rechargeable batt. for the CMOS which would have died eventually. I think I need to configure the CMOS but I don't know how.

When I turn it on I get the Averatech white screen which says to press DEL to enter setup. I can press del or do nothing and it goes to a black screen which has the following information (it looks like a DOS screen except the energy star ally logo is in color as is the American Megatrends logo.

I get the American Megatrends screen with the release date 08/04/2004.

This is my screen:

BIOS Version R1.04 VGABIOS 45KNO482

mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M (LV) 2200+ (133x12.5 CPUID:06A0)

DEL:Setup F8:Boot Menu F12:Network boot

CMOS/GPNV Checksum Bad

Press F1 to Run SETUP

Press F2 to load default values and continue

63-2000-009999-00101111-040201-VIA_K7-E12TR104-

It stops there and I cannot get it to respond to any keys. I only have a 2002 XP home edition software disk. I am uncertain if it is the one that came with this computer. I tried to boot with the disk in but it makes no difference. The drive is reading the disk but.....what do I do now?

⟐ Commented September 23, 2017 at 9:11 MST

Averatec 3200: Please reboot media exiting intel pxe rom

Wed, 05 Oct 2016 04:14:14 -0700

Please help my old laptop from 04 has stuff I only have on it I want to cloud