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June 10th, 2004, 07:01 AM
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Computer wont boot up
Well I have went to bootdisk.com and made a new floppy booter,and tried using that without cdrom support.I tried the FDISK at the A:\ but it says NO FIXED DISKS PRESENT?????? I cant get any further than this,I mean I can changed the prompts but all commands even the format c: all say the same thing BAD COMMAND OR FILE NAME. Can someone please help?It is a Compaq presario 4784,and the ONLY disks that I have are windows 98 and windows ME, and thequick restore CD for the machine,but It's not even reading that one either!
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June 10th, 2004, 04:06 PM
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June 10th, 2004, 06:34 PM
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Hi there Dino,
Can you tell me how to get into the BIOS? I have tried tapping the delete key and F1 through F12 and all I get is keyboard error at the top of the screen and a blue box at the bottom thats says F1 to boot?
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June 10th, 2004, 08:18 PM
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You might watch for a message during the boot that says 'Press ?? for setup', with the ?? being the key sequence to use. If that doesn't appear, and you only get some numbers during the first part of the boot sequence, then the key to use is probably F10. You need to press that at precisely the correct time during the boot process or it will not work. You could try just pressing it repeatedly as soon as the first characters appear on the monitor.
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June 10th, 2004, 09:37 PM
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Hi there JDC I rebooted and continued to tap the f10 key where as I got a screen that says this
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 98 STARTUP MENU 1.START WITH CD-ROM SUPPORT 2.START WITHOUT CD-ROM SUPPORT 3.VIEW THE HELP FILE DOS=HIGH,UMB ( ENTER=Y,ESC=N)?_ ( _ )is flashing. What should I do now I have never seen this before on ANY computer.
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June 10th, 2004, 10:12 PM
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It looks like you are now able to boot from a bootable floppy diskette. The usual menu selection is 1.START WITH CD-ROM SUPPORT. Press Y to answer any of the boot questions. Once you get an A:> prompt, try a DIR C: command to see if you can access the C: drive.
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June 10th, 2004, 10:30 PM
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Oh my goodness I have never had to press Y sooo much! But I finally got to the A: and I typed in DIR C: and this is what I am looking at now
VOLUME IN DRIVE C IS MS-RAMDRIVE DIRECETORY OF C:\ then it has a long list of things 15 file(s) 0 dir(s) A:\>_
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June 11th, 2004, 03:26 PM
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June 11th, 2004, 03:33 PM
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Hi mizzfire,
Since you're receiving the "no fixed disks present" error when attempting to run FDISK, and the C drive is the RAMDRIVE (a "virtual" drive, created in memory, that holds the contents of the ebd.cab file on the WIN98 startup disk), there's a good chance that your hard drive is dead. Go the the hard drive manufacturer's website, d/load the diagnostic utility (usually you copy the d/loaded file for diagnostic utility to a bootable floppy disk.......there may be instructions at the site for how to run the utility) and run the diagnostic on the hard drive.
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June 11th, 2004, 07:39 PM
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It does look like a dead hard drive. It couldn't hurt to open up the case and check the power and data cable connections to the drive to make sure that they are secure. It could also be a bad IDE interface as well. To check that you would have to connect the hard drive to a different PC (as a slave drive) and then see if it is recognized.
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