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by tommydigital

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I have a dead system on my network that the following message on boot-up:

impossible de trouver le systeme d'exploitation.

What the hell does this mean? Thanks in advance.

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by poltrup

After a quick shot on babelfish

(http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr) your system is telling, in French, that it can't find the operating system...

impossible de trouver le systeme d'exploitation

equals

impossible to find the operating system

Perhaps someone has been playing with the BIOS (hence the language change, and perhaps the drive geometry...)

Jim

by tommydigital

Thanks. Your answer was right on point. The BIOS language had been changed to french and there appears to be no bootable partition on the machine. I am running diagnostics on the machine, as I write this comment. Thanks again.

by timthetoolman

Hi,

Or alternatively you've got a French manufactured or marketted motherboard and the cmos battery has died. It defaults to its default language (French) and loses info on configurations for the disks - hence the boot problem.

Just a possibility...

Cheers,
Tim.

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