Re: HELP - Can't start up Computer AT ALL. even with floppy or CD's
From: Robert Newson (ReapNewsT_at_uk.co.fsnet.bullet3)
Date: 07/13/03
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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:57:55 GMT
jb wrote:
> Hi, thanks for takign the time to read this: I cant start my computer AT
> ALL. not from the drive, the startup floppys or the recovery CD's. the
> screen stays blank. here's what i did:
>
> I have a gateway P4 1.7 GHZ computer running Windows XP. I decided to try
> Mandrake 9.1 (first time trying linux) and used it to shrink the windows
> partition and dual boot linux. The first time I did this I installed
> LILO(the bootloader) to the MBR of the computer, but I didn't configure my
> monitor correctly, so when it finished installing linux it would only start
> up with the text version. I didnt know what to do so I reinstalled
> mandrake, this time setting LILO to install on the partiton of mandrake (is
> lilo now both here and on the MBR?) and set up my monitor so that KDE
> started when linux did. LILO had linux as the default OS, but I wanted
> windowsXP to be the default. SO under the LILO options there was some
> setting where I changed somehting like "boot from: hda(5)" to "hda(1)",
> hoping that would do it. I'm guessing this was a huge mistake. When I
> restarted nothing showed up on my screen. I guess I set it to look for lilo
> on the windows xp partition where it isn't. Now all I want to do is get XP
> back, but I can't boot from a CD-ROM or a floppy. I don't know what to do.
> I can't even get into the BIOS. The screen is always blank.
Does the machine "beep" when you switch it on? (A single "Beep" or a series
of "beeps"?)
> I even tried
> to boot with my 2nd hard drive (data only) as master, and boot with no
> drives in. I also removed the battery on the motherboard for a minute, stil
> nothing.
That may/should have wiped the cmos and so the bios may not know what drives
you have installed to try and boot.
> I really dont know what to do.
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