re: PC has stopped working
Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 7:25 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by glenn
(100 messages posted)
Hi Ricer46 and thanks for your help.
I had no idea my daughter was going to start again with diskettes. Wish she had told
me!
Well, I don't know what that floppy is you are referring to but am pretty sure I
don't have one.
I also don't have any idea how to begin getting into the BIOS, but am prepared to
have a go if you can give me some help with it and what I should do when I get there.
(I read in a forum that there is a way of maybe getting out of the problem by booting
up, hitting F2 (?)and telling you computer that you don't have a hard disk Does that
mean anything to you?)
On Saturday, November 25, 2006 at 7:15 am, Ricer46 wrote:
>"'Pri. Master Disk HDD S.M.A.R.T. capability ... Disabled', if that is relevant."
>Not relevant.
>Sounds like maybe a hardware problem developed while your daughter was working on
>the computer, certainly unusual, but not impossible.
>Yes, the floppy could have had a virus, but this doesn't really sound like a virus,
>although I would hesitate to completely rule that out.
>As an aside, it's really a bad idea to open files from a floppy disk, it's fairly
>easy to corrupt the entire floppy disk, losing all of the data on it.
>At this point you should do some basic hardware troubleshooting. Begin with seeing
>if you can get into the bios setup. If you have an old W9x boot floppy, see if you
>can boot with that. If those work, then write back, if they don't work write back.
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