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> 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 512MB RAM. 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
Ginny, Have you tried, tried the power cables? What I am referring to is
not, the cable physically attached to the power supply but, the conversion
cable that is used to attach to the cable from the power supply then, the
other smaller end, attaches to the back of the hard drive. Have you tried
swapping that, for another one?
Christopher
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