Re: Cannot get past POST screen

["IconoclasticThinker@xxxxxxxxx" <IconoclasticThinker@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Orrett wrote:
> 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,

Much deleted

get a boot-able copy of a Linux distro put it in the Cd fdisk and
format the system (for Linux)if the puter boots from the drive with
Linux on it then you have resolved 1/2 the problem
re-size the drive and reformat for XP remember to partition it
according to their need

you might be dealing with the 137 GB size limiter inherent in some
windows Xp versions

Knoppix comes to mind as a tool that might work best as a Linux version
to try