"Cannot load DOS! Any key to retry"
Thats whats showing up on my screen after booting my computer with any utility disk for my hard drive, I havent tried a WinXX disk cuz i dont have one and cant find one on the net. Any idea what might be the problem? thnx aslo when I boot it without any disk... it just sits there with a black screen and a blinkin curser...
Attempts to fix:
- Restore Master Boot Record with XP CD
- Moved around RAM to see if one was bad or something
- Removed all my PCI devices, bone dry (mobo, cpu, ram, hard drive only)
- Tried booting with different disk utilities for the hard drive (Maxtor Blast 3/ PowerMax 4.06) figuring the BIOS couldnt boot it cuz its a 40 gig and the BIOS is too old to handle it. But I doubt thats the case cuz it was reading it a week ago.
Some Facts:
- Started giving me problems after Installing a PCI FireWire
- BIOS detects the Hard drive and everything else good.
- I am running WinXP Pro
- 350mhz CPU Pentium II
- 256MB RAM (2*128MB)
- Hard drive ran perfectly fine on two other computers two days ago...
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