THanks to all who replied to the problem.
The computer, which is not mine, is only about3 months old.
The owner has been in telephone contact with the makers who got him to run
some tests and the outcome is that he
is to have either a new battery fitted to the motherboard
or a new motherboard.
He is not sure what it is until they get here.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerald E. Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: PCWorks: Drive Problem
> At 08:26 AM 9/3/01 +0100, jfisher wrote the following:
>
> >Thanks for the reply Gerald.
> >In both cases the message "No fixed disks present" is
> >recieved.
>
> No fixed disk present indicates the hard drive is not seen by the BIOS.
> Generally, this will only be seen in two cases:
>
> 1. hard drive is bad
> 2. drive is not getting and power (i.e., IDE ribbon cable came lose or is
> not connected)
>
> If you go into BIOS setup and autodetect the HDD, does it detect and
report
> the correct size?
>
> If not then the main drive has probably gone "bad" and will need to be
> replaced.
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