Please help.
The prob started 6 months ago and I just shelved the computer to work on later, pulled it out again this week and it worked fine for a couple of days. Now it's back.
My computer will not boot from it's hard drive, searches for bootable drive and can't find one except for A:, and I never made a rescue disk. The BIOS setup progarm can't find the hard drive. Drive spins up fine, cables in the case seem to be seated firmly, sounds from the computer are normal. I have a cd-rom drive and a cdrw drive the cd-rom is fine but the cdrw does not have any power at this point in the boot process. And now on top of all this, my moniter has just quit coming on.
I don't have to have any of the data on the drive, but I want to have the computer working.
I NEED advice, I am stumped.
The prob started 6 months ago and I just shelved the computer to work on later, pulled it out again this week and it worked fine for a couple of days. Now it's back.
My computer will not boot from it's hard drive, searches for bootable drive and can't find one except for A:, and I never made a rescue disk. The BIOS setup progarm can't find the hard drive. Drive spins up fine, cables in the case seem to be seated firmly, sounds from the computer are normal. I have a cd-rom drive and a cdrw drive the cd-rom is fine but the cdrw does not have any power at this point in the boot process. And now on top of all this, my moniter has just quit coming on.
I don't have to have any of the data on the drive, but I want to have the computer working.
I NEED advice, I am stumped.