Since this was not mentioned, try updating your bios. Be VERY careful
when doing this though......if something happens and it fails, instant
boat anchor......
Piney Woods PC's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> OK, my computer has stumped the local computer guy so am wondering if
> anyone here has a clue. The computer is a Gateway AMD Athlon K-7, was
> running windows 98 as the os. It had 512 mb memory. Out of the blue,
> when turned on, the computer would not boot. It boots thru the bios,
> then has a black screen that says disk not ready. So, of course we
> thought it was the hard drive. The floppy drive works, as we can boot
> with a rescue disk. The weird thing is it wont read the c drive. The
> hard drive rescue disc wont read the c-drive. We take the c-drive out
> and it is easily read by another computer. Next we thought of a boot
> sector virus. Scanned, scanned and scanned, no virus, no adware. So,
> we put another known working hard drive in the computer, wont boot,
> wont read the drive, yet the computer will boot past the bios,and the
> mother board appears to be functioning as we can access the bios just
> fine and it all looks to be working. The cmos battery was taken out
> and put back in. Any ideas on this motherboard before we scrap the
> thing? I am at work, cant get the specs on the motherboard right at
> the moment, but will be able to post that later.
> Ginny
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