Re: Cannot get past POST screen

[John Orrett <johnorrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IconoclasticThinker@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the advice. I don't think the 137 GB limitation is relevant 
here, as the old HDD was 250GB and I'm replacing it with the same size.
Unfortunately, I can't boot anything from the CD, so even trying to 
install Linux won't work. After the POST, nothing. I've removed the SATA 
HDD and booted, but it doesn't even give any error warning about no OS 
installed, just the flipping cursor!
Best wishes,
John