This is sooo wierd. I bought and re-sold a system to a friend: Pentium 233 MMX, 64M RAM, 6G HD, etc. She was surfing while listening to an audio CD on the CD-ROM – the PC froze, not responding to Alt-F4, Ctrl-ALT-Delete, or anything. She turned it off, and, on reboot, it couldn’t find the boot record for the C drive. I went over and started trying to configure it out. Wierdest BIOS I ever saw – AMI, don’t have the numbers on me.
Sometimes it would auto-detect the HD, but as larger capacity than it is, with 16 heads vs 15. Sometimes it would acknowledge the CD-ROM, but determine that it wasn’t ATAPI compatible. It usually took a long time doing this. Other times, it zipped right through this detection process.
Anyway, the bottom line is, whether I left it with the figures it autodetected, or whether I plugged in the correct figures, when it would acknowledge both the HD and the CD-ROM (so I could proceed with FDISK, reformat, and setup from the WINDOWS 98 CD), it would finish theboot process by sear
