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i have been trying to boot it and it wont perform the bios after it goes to hp it goes black with a blinking cursor it is an hp pavillion xt963 trying to load windows 2000

Name: wanderer
Date: September 24, 2009 at 09:59:16 Pacific

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blinking cursor means no master boot record. It is reaching the hard drive first and not starting the cd with the 2000 install first. This is a bios setting or a boot option. You have to figure out with your system how to boot the cd before the hard drive to get 2000 to start installing.

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Name: jam
Date: September 24, 2009 at 13:57:07 Pacific

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did you forget to "press any key..."?

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Name: XpUser4Real
Date: September 24, 2009 at 15:32:55 Pacific

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is there a floppy in the drive? Some HELP in posting on Computing.net plus free progs and instructions Cheers

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