Newbie help please!

Jessi P · 05-08-2006, 03:57 PM

OK, long story short:

Bought son a puter (tower + nice 17" Compaq monitor) at a yard sale for $6 (no cables etc). Seller knew nothing about it, other than it was "computer parts."

It starts to load the Win2000 start up screen, then skips to a blue screen -
In the top left it says "Inacessible boot device."

Looking through possibilities someone has suggested it could be the BIOS... is this indeed a possibility and any ideas where to go from here?

Son and his friend took the hard drive out, installed it on friends puter as a slave, it was recognized and had some viruses on it and was cleared. Win2000 was installed. Put HD back into puter.

Any ideas? I appreciate any help (not nearly as much as son will tho!).

Here is the info son found on puter:

Processor:
Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU
2.40 GHz (100 x 24.0 CPUID:OF29)
Bios Version:
P4561 Bios
Cache Size 128 Kb
Microcode update F29/11

Edited to add: Sorry if this thread is in the wrong forum - I dont know enough about puters to know where exactly to put it.....

Jessi P · 05-09-2006, 07:56 AM

Anyone?

Thanks!

Drakin316 · 05-09-2006, 03:46 PM

You can try looking in the BIOS and make sure that your hard drive is the first boot device or make sure it is selected as a boot device. The IDE cable may be bad since it worked on another computer so you may want to check that. I guess the another thing is that you may want to make sure it is set to either cable select or master for that computer unless you have another hard drive in it.

Another problem may be that the motherboard IDE end may be bad. You may want to pull the IDE cable off of the motherboard side of the machine and plug it in to the other IDE slot on the MOBO. Hope this helps you get started on trouble shooting the problem.

05-08-2006, 03:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
Jessi P Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2	Newbie help please! OK, long story short: Bought son a puter (tower + nice 17" Compaq monitor) at a yard sale for $6 (no cables etc). Seller knew nothing about it, other than it was "computer parts." It starts to load the Win2000 start up screen, then skips to a blue screen - In the top left it says "Inacessible boot device." Looking through possibilities someone has suggested it could be the BIOS... is this indeed a possibility and any ideas where to go from here? Son and his friend took the hard drive out, installed it on friends puter as a slave, it was recognized and had some viruses on it and was cleared. Win2000 was installed. Put HD back into puter. Any ideas? I appreciate any help (not nearly as much as son will tho!). Here is the info son found on puter: Processor: Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.40 GHz (100 x 24.0 CPUID:OF29) Bios Version: P4561 Bios Cache Size 128 Kb Microcode update F29/11 Edited to add: Sorry if this thread is in the wrong forum - I dont know enough about puters to know where exactly to put it..... Last edited by Jessi P; 05-08-2006 at 04:05 PM.

05-09-2006, 07:56 AM	#2 (permalink)
Jessi P Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 2	Bump! Anyone? Thanks!

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05-09-2006, 03:46 PM	#3 (permalink)
Drakin316 Registered User Join Date: May 2003 Location: louisiana Posts: 185	You can try looking in the BIOS and make sure that your hard drive is the first boot device or make sure it is selected as a boot device. The IDE cable may be bad since it worked on another computer so you may want to check that. I guess the another thing is that you may want to make sure it is set to either cable select or master for that computer unless you have another hard drive in it. Another problem may be that the motherboard IDE end may be bad. You may want to pull the IDE cable off of the motherboard side of the machine and plug it in to the other IDE slot on the MOBO. Hope this helps you get started on trouble shooting the problem.