Tek-Tips is the largest IT community on the Internet today!

Members share and learn making Tek-Tips Forums the best source of peer-reviewed technical information on the Internet!

  • Congratulations gkittelson on being selected by the Tek-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

hard drive not being read....

Status
Not open for further replies.

Steexz

Technical User
Nov 24, 2003
1
US
Im haveing an extremely hard time getting my computer up and running after a bad virus. I was unable to go through post.... post would come up and the cd - rom would be read but no hard drive. So i switched ide channels and then they both read... but it wouldnt get passed a screen with a blinking underscore cursor? i have tried everything from new from to a new hard drive and to what i just did today... a completly new mobo. Im very frustrated i cant fix it... im on my way to try and put a different video card in it... and to switch out ide cabel completly. any help would be great thank you.
 
Did u do a format? did u create a partition? did u set up well the fumpers? what system did u want to install?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor

Back
Top