PC boot problem 4

[Crustyoldbloke]

Last week I moved my son's PC, taking care not to drop it or bash it. When it was in it's new place, it failed to boot. The boot sequence goes as far as "verifying pool data" and stops.

I have tried to boot it from a floppy "startup disk" and from a Win98 CD, by changing the bios sequence, to no avail. I have also changed the hard drive to a known "good one", again, no good.

Am I looking at a motherboard problem? or is there something else I should be doing diagnostically to get to the root of the problem?

Any help, greatly appreciated.

 

[edfair]

How about starting a new thread. From the basics.
No need to try troubleshooting a basic boot problem with all the overhead included above. Ed Fair
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[DBSSP]

I agree. How about it 'Bloke? Jay
"If the words up and down were reversed, would you trip and fall or trip and fly?"