yagga
19 Jul 2004, 04:18am
My duron 1.3ghz computer worked yesterday early evening, maybe later, but forsure up to early evening. Today midday I go to move the mouse and get the monitor to pop on from standby, guess what, it doesn't come on, so I try and try and try, then hit the power button. When the computer restarts it says, "Operating System not found on any devices. Press any key to continue." I can't get passed this, checked the cheezy compaq bios and made sure the hard drive booted first since I know sometimes it can act up if the floppy/cd are before the hard drive. It wasn't first so I thought I fixed it, but of course it didn't work. So... after just reformatting and installing stuff for literally days all day long I have to start from scratch, unless any of you very wise Icronaughts or visitors now how to fix this. Does anyone?
As always, running Windows XP.
My next step is to crack open the case, which proves very irritating and hurts my fingers since I kicked the case on a compaq rage (which believe it or not actually fixed the problem it seemed). I'll basically be checking the connections, one hard drive, one cable, not many odds for me to find something wrong.
The mystery is it did this all on its own, no signs of trouble at all, computer was in 100% working order with as far as I know 0% spyware, adware, viruses, trojans, etc.
As always, running Windows XP.
My next step is to crack open the case, which proves very irritating and hurts my fingers since I kicked the case on a compaq rage (which believe it or not actually fixed the problem it seemed). I'll basically be checking the connections, one hard drive, one cable, not many odds for me to find something wrong.
The mystery is it did this all on its own, no signs of trouble at all, computer was in 100% working order with as far as I know 0% spyware, adware, viruses, trojans, etc.