Diane,
You definitely have problems. If ever there was a time that you should
consider a new computer it seems that now would be such a time.
OK, the 'no system disk' error statement says that the bios does not see an
OS on the hard drive. This doesn't necessarily mean that it is going bad.
Sometimes the master boot record is damaged. Although it could be a bad hard
drive.
As for troubleshooting the foppy drive, does it make any noice when you put
a disk in the drive? Does the drive light come on?
Another idea comes to mind too, a bad p;ower supply. When things get this
bad I tend to lean toward buying a new machine. Then after getting that set
up I go back and take my time to troubleshoot the old machine. After you get
the new machine you could install the hard drive from the old machine as a
slave drive, then you will be able to copy your data files to the new drive.
> 1. Clock is seriously losing time.
> 2. Floppy drive won't work
> 3. NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX/MX 400 drivers arent' working. (yellow check
> mark next to it in Device Manager). I've uninstalled, reinstalled,
> uninstalled, installed updated drivers, etc. Nothing works. (or if it
> does, it doesn't last. The new drivers won't work at all. It let me
> 'rollback' to the older drivers once and the checkmark went away. But
> now it won't ever rollback.
>
> I have three hard drives and don't even know for sure which one is
> bad. I only know it's not the new one. ;)
You could try each of those spare hard drives one at a time and then try to
install the OS if you have an install disk.
It sounds like your old machine must be pretty bad off, you should try a
site like tigerdirect.com for a bare bones machine.
Jim
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