On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:48:26 -0400, you wrote:

Reset the BIOS and try again


>Greetings...
>
>I'm trying to help a friend get an P-II going again. It was a Win98 system 
>which
>suffered a hard drive failure. No matter which way I try to boot the system - 
>CD,
>floppy, or a replacement hard drive which I took from another system - I can 
>only
>get to the BIOS screen and then the boot sequence stops. 
>
>The memory test goes ok, then the correct/replacement hard drive is identified,
>and then nothing else happens. I can't boot from floppy, CD, or hard drive no
>matter what is selected in the BIOS.
>
>Any suggestion about what I might look for or change? A book on Upgrading and
>Repairing PCs hasn't led me to any flashes of insight. :-)  Many thanks...
>-- 
>cheers, Stephen



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