I'm not much of a hardware guy, so i'm hoping you all can shed a little light.
I came in one day and my compaq desktop (which i usually leave on) was hung up on the initialization screen. It does not boot into the operating system. The only thing it allows you to do is go into the bios setup, which I did. When i look under the hardware option, it only recognizes the cdrom and the floppy (an older system). Thinking the hard drive might have gone bad, I swapped out a different one from a different, pc, but no joy. The hard drive was from another later model compaq desktop, but i'm not sure if this would make a difference. At any rate, neither of the hd's were recognized by the bios as even being there.
Question - is it possible that something fried on the motherboard - is this fixable? I'm not sure what else I could do to diagnose the problem as being hd, software or motherboard related. The data on the system is not critical, but I was using this machine as my test environment for various projects.
I came in one day and my compaq desktop (which i usually leave on) was hung up on the initialization screen. It does not boot into the operating system. The only thing it allows you to do is go into the bios setup, which I did. When i look under the hardware option, it only recognizes the cdrom and the floppy (an older system). Thinking the hard drive might have gone bad, I swapped out a different one from a different, pc, but no joy. The hard drive was from another later model compaq desktop, but i'm not sure if this would make a difference. At any rate, neither of the hd's were recognized by the bios as even being there.
Question - is it possible that something fried on the motherboard - is this fixable? I'm not sure what else I could do to diagnose the problem as being hd, software or motherboard related. The data on the system is not critical, but I was using this machine as my test environment for various projects.