I'm not sure what is wrong with this computer. I suspect something motherboard related.
Can't boot from the hard drive... it just sits there and does nothing. I downloaded the UBCD so I could test the hard drive. I have tried two different cd-rom drives and it will boot from neither one. I tested the CD on my laptop, and it boots to the CD fine.
When trying to boot to the CD I get the error Cannot read from master boot record, then it keeps trying to boot from the CD.
I'm about to download a BIOS, flash it, and see what happens. First I have to find a floppy disk....
The motherboard is an ASRock 775Dual-VSTA Bios version P1.1. The computer was the brother-in-laws, but they couldn't get it to work and were tired of messing with it so they got a laptop.
***UPDATE***
Just replaced the PSU and tried again.
I can get to where it says "Press [ENTER] to boot the Ultimate Boot CD." I press Enter and it says "A disk read error occured. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart."
Can't boot from the hard drive... it just sits there and does nothing. I downloaded the UBCD so I could test the hard drive. I have tried two different cd-rom drives and it will boot from neither one. I tested the CD on my laptop, and it boots to the CD fine.
When trying to boot to the CD I get the error Cannot read from master boot record, then it keeps trying to boot from the CD.
I'm about to download a BIOS, flash it, and see what happens. First I have to find a floppy disk....
The motherboard is an ASRock 775Dual-VSTA Bios version P1.1. The computer was the brother-in-laws, but they couldn't get it to work and were tired of messing with it so they got a laptop.
***UPDATE***
Just replaced the PSU and tried again.
I can get to where it says "Press [ENTER] to boot the Ultimate Boot CD." I press Enter and it says "A disk read error occured. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart."
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