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Gateway solo turns on and gives no operating system found error

Discussion in 'Windows BSOD, Freezing, Restarting Help' started by buymystuff4001, Mar 25, 2011.

  1. buymystuff4001 Newcomer, in training

    my gateway solo turns 1150 turns on, but after a few minutes it says no operating system found. it doesn't recignize the hard drive or cd drive at all in the bios page and it doesn't have a floppy drive. i'm trying to install windows xp on it as i thought that would be all that it needed when i bought it, but since i can't get it to recignize the cd drive i'm at a loss for what to do for it. this is what it shows when i turn it on:

    to change system settings, press F2
    to boot to cd rom or floppy drive, press esc

    and it shows this when i press esc:

    bios version 21.09
    nothbood id : 87564302
    cput = intel (r) mobile celeron (tm) processor 700mhz
    640kb system ram passed
    63m extended ram passed
    128k cache sram passed
    system bios shadowed
    video bios shadowed
    umb upper limit segment address : e730

    then after a few minutes it says operating system not found. any ideas would be helpful. i've tried pulling the ram and then pulling the hard drive and i get the same messages.