you sure the hard drive and cable is properly seated at both ends now that the hard drive has returned to that box?
what are the final messages on the screen before it will do no more? HappyEvilSlosh wrote: > Thanks to Carl, Nick and Volker for the advice. Now an update. > > I swapped the hard drive with another PC which had a fully functioning > install, after which the Hard drive worked fine. > > I swapped the cables in the PC with ones I knew worked. > > However I'm unable to run any additional tests as I'm now lucky if the > computer boots past whatever the part of booting that allows you into BIOS > is called, let alone completing an operating system start up (this goes for > LiveCD's as well). > > --Slosh > > >
