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New Motherboard problem
Further to my previous questions, I gave up
(I run a charity that had a PC donated to it, which would not boot up, except in safe mode (which is why the owner got rid of it))
After trying all usual solutions I gave up and replaced the motherboard which did not solve the problem
So I put a hard drive from one of my boyfriends PC’s in, incase the problem was with the original hard drive (even though all diagnostic tests shoed no problem with hard drive)
To cut a long story short, even if I use a boot disk from Win 98, I get a message saying that windows has ncountered a problem and cannot find a fixed drive
This is despite when on boot up it says “detecting IDE Drives” and the CD and HD are listed correctly
If I don’t use a start up floppy, it says “invalid boot disk”
From: ameliapumo@yahoo.co.uk Date: 06/24/2004 Status: Answered Points: 500
Comment from ameliapumo@yahoo.co.uk on 06/27/04 :
Checked all possible problems as suggested.
things are now going from bad to worse
I now have 2 pc’s that don’t work and 2 hard drives I cannot access in ANY Pc (including the 5 others we use)
I’ve tried everything
Memory, motherboard, leads, cables, etc
Could it be that somehow a virus has got into the originalmotherboard such that every time I boot up it somehow destroys the boot sector on the hard drives
I don’t know whether this is possible, but I can’t see how 2 hard drives which initially would boot up in safe mode only on PC #1, but worked on the other PC #2 will now not work on either, both PC’s report that there are no fixed drives present. I cannot even go into safe mode, and using a floppy boot disk eventually reports too, that there are no fixed drives present
