- May 23, 2002
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I picked up a PC from a friend who thought the HDD was bad. I have a few extras laying around so thought I'd revive it. The PC is a Medion PC MT6 which is a P4 2.66.
Problem is I can't get it to boot up at all. I tried to boot from an XP Setup CD and it just would hang. I tried multiple hard drives, swapped the memory, swapped the CD Drive, and tried multiple CDs. Most of the time the CD boots, starts going through the Windows setup screens and then just hangs part way through as on the bottom of the screen is says Loading something. It always gets stuck at different places.
I can't seem to figure out how to get into the BIOS as when I turn it on, I get a Pentium 4 symbol in the middle of the screen and it then tries to boot up. Tried F1, F2, and Del and couldn't get anything to work.
Looking for any advice on other things I could try.
I looked at the MB to try to figure out what it is and it says N1996. Not sure if I can find a bootable BIOS upgrade CD but could try that. There's no floppy in this either.
Thanks for any help.
Problem is I can't get it to boot up at all. I tried to boot from an XP Setup CD and it just would hang. I tried multiple hard drives, swapped the memory, swapped the CD Drive, and tried multiple CDs. Most of the time the CD boots, starts going through the Windows setup screens and then just hangs part way through as on the bottom of the screen is says Loading something. It always gets stuck at different places.
I can't seem to figure out how to get into the BIOS as when I turn it on, I get a Pentium 4 symbol in the middle of the screen and it then tries to boot up. Tried F1, F2, and Del and couldn't get anything to work.
Looking for any advice on other things I could try.
I looked at the MB to try to figure out what it is and it says N1996. Not sure if I can find a bootable BIOS upgrade CD but could try that. There's no floppy in this either.
Thanks for any help.