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Walter Mautner wrote:
John Orrett wrote:
Hi there; a friend of mine has a Philips Freeline LS1100 PC. The SATA
HDD was failing, with loads of bad sectors, so I replaced it with
another. It got to the stage that when it booted up, all that appeared
was a blinking cursor in the top left corner.
The problem is, when I put in the XP Media Edition disc, the machine
gets past the POST stage, and then all I get is the flashing cursor in
the top left of the screen. It never gets to the 'press any key to boot
from CD' screen. I've checked the BIOS, and it's set to boot from the CD
ROM unit. I've tried a couple of other CD ROM units, but none work. The
BIOS picks up the new SATA drive and any IDE CD ROM unit I try it with.
I'm at a loss as to what to do next. I've tried the BIOS safe load
settings etc.
You may try a bootfloppy (www.bootdisk.com or a simple "format /s" selfmade
one, just to test. Then, if that works, download xp bootfloppy set.
If the computer has no more floppy, buy a usb floppy drive.
Try some other bootable cd like you find them on comp magazines covers, like
knoppix.
Hi Walter, no joy I'm afraid :-(. I borrowed a USB floppy, but still
just the flashing cursor. There is no activity from the floppy. I've
tried all kinds of settings in the BIOS, but still nothing.
I'm quickly losing the will to live with this one!
Regards,
John
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