just bought it,turnd on ,it asked for system disk,loaded win 98 got to code put in code,then system came up with error msg & i had to switch off,when switched back on black screen,nothing,jh/drive light stays on except when i put cd romin then it goes off but still nothing happens,this did not happen before.tried boot disk but a:drive doesnt seem to work(no light)tried everything eg disconnecting h/drive 2 c if a/will boot,im out of ideas please help.

If it was me I would start from scratch. FORMAT/ PARTITION DRIVE/ AND RELOAD WIN 98. ALSO CHECK THAT ALL DRIVES IN SETUP BIOS ARE SETUP RIGHT, eg floppy 1.44Mb.

yes iwould do all that but absolutely nothin is coming up on screen a:drive is not working but it was before,cant enter dos or anything ,black screen, no boot at all!

Start by reseating all the components inside. The video card, sound card, modem, IDE and floppy cacles, memory, and CPU. Also, reseat the power supply cable. If this fails, try to clear the BIOS as per the instructions in the motherboard manual. Hope this helps.

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k thanx, i will try 2 reseat everything & reset bios if i can,i cant imagine the prob being a fatal 1 as all i have done with pc is set bios to load fail safe defaults.bbl

Just bought it? It should be under warranty, take it back and have them make it work. Assuming this is a new, off-the-shelf computer.

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They are giving you the best advice you can get: take it back - use warranty!

I just was helped by this forum day ago. I couldnt use warranty: mine expired 3 weeks ago.

I wish you luck!

thanx all will do.