LeeRichLuck
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Hi, i have just been given an old Pack-Bell iMedia 1418 from a friend but he did say it wont work, but if i can make anything of it, then its mine for free, so i took a look.
The pc needs a little updating as it only has a whopping 80gig HD and 256mb of ram lol lol lol but it does have a Pentium4 3.0GHz chip with hyperthreading so if i were to get some more ram (possibly 2 or 3 gig) another HD (500gig) and XP home OS then it would probably make a semi decent web browsing / letter writting machine for my daughter to learn with.
Problem is when it boots the error message :-
NTLDR is missing, press alt.ctrl,del to restart......
But this is just a loop that go's no further.
If i replace the HD etc will this probelm go away or is it a MB/Bios problem ?
Hope you can shed some light on this for me,
Regards,
Lee.
P.S the machine has the XP home serial key on the side but my friend never made a recovery disk so i will probably need to just get another OS, which i appreciate.
The pc needs a little updating as it only has a whopping 80gig HD and 256mb of ram lol lol lol but it does have a Pentium4 3.0GHz chip with hyperthreading so if i were to get some more ram (possibly 2 or 3 gig) another HD (500gig) and XP home OS then it would probably make a semi decent web browsing / letter writting machine for my daughter to learn with.
Problem is when it boots the error message :-
NTLDR is missing, press alt.ctrl,del to restart......
But this is just a loop that go's no further.
If i replace the HD etc will this probelm go away or is it a MB/Bios problem ?
Hope you can shed some light on this for me,
Regards,
Lee.
P.S the machine has the XP home serial key on the side but my friend never made a recovery disk so i will probably need to just get another OS, which i appreciate.