My Aptiva 2159 will not boot up. Aunti gave it to me after cousin had it opened up and tried to install mismatched EDO Simm and new Hard drive with win98SE on it.
I removed the mismatched SIMM and installed four matching EDO Simm for total of 32MB of memory.
I gave a look and every thing was connected correctly.
I also removed all unnecessary cards, and still not starting up.
Do not know if he did anything right to Prepare the HD or not?
He did say he tried this win 95 hard drive in another of his computers and it worked.
But it would not start up with that New HD with Win 98SE, and he took it out, and put the smaller HD back in that he had installed win95B.
So I do not think the factory Installed Software load is still on the orig hard drive.
It gets to the IBM logo on the screen, and Also, it takes 15-20 min to count the 32MB ram.
It counts the memory, and when it is done just sits there and does nothing.
The keyboard does not seem to have any effect, as in trying to enter set up by hitting F1.
I have spent three hours on the IBM Aptiva site so far trying to find out how to order a Product Recovery CD rom, and cannot get anywhere.
I am trying to get my aunt who gave me the Aptiva 2159, to look and find the recovery CD. I have her manual and the diagnostic CD but the Recovery CD rom is missing.
Any help to get this started up would be wonderful.
I am not sure if the hard drive has the orig factory software load on it or not, but it does have win 95, or so Aunti told me.
Would appreciate any help in getting it started up and/or locating a place to buy a Recovery CD. Thanks, Joe