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no boot
Name: delirious Date: September 9, 2002 at 20:43:06 Pacific OS: win98 CPU/Ram: celeron 400/128
Comment:
Last week I went to access a floppy file and my machine crashed. Since then I can get thru mem check, pnp init, and drive detection (showing both HD and CD correctly) but the loading then stops - cursor blinking, no movement. I have checked thru mobo seetings, Bios and Cmos with no improvement of loading. Any ideas on what's hanging? I can't seem to boot from floppy - no response. have tried swapping out floppy for one that I know works. is there a connection that could have blown and therefore floppy drive is no longer detected?
Name: dc Date: September 9, 2002 at 22:01:34 Pacific
Reply:
When you say cursor blinking, are you at a dos prompt? If so, can you type in scanreg /restore and pick a day of the last good boot?
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Response Number 2
Name: delirious Date: September 9, 2002 at 22:28:14 Pacific
Reply:
I may have terminology wrong - not a cursor or DOS prompt, just a flashing rectangle. It's still the first black screen that lists BIOS, PNP Init, auto detecting primary master, pri slave, sm, ss. Then blank, blinking box.
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Response Number 3
Name: Paul Miller Date: September 10, 2002 at 11:48:44 Pacific
Reply:
Make sure that you do not have the floppy drive plugged in backwards. Also, try swapping the floppy drive cable with a new one. It may have gone bad.
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