Hi everyone,
I have recently replaced my desktop PC with a laptop, and I am delighted with it !
I want to sell my desktop PC as a working PC, but at the moment I am mystified as to what is wrong with it. It's had Windows ME on it, and it had a problem - even though the system is functioning, the mouse and keyboard was completely frozen. If you unplugged the mouse (PS2), you could control the system using the keyboard.
I thought it would be best to format the hard drive and try reinstalling Windows ME afresh, but each time I try to do this, it completes the first stage of setup, right up to 100%, then the system tries to access the floppy drive (whether or not there's a disk in it), the system beeps and a small black box appears on the screen. Then nothing can be done other than reboot.
It doesn't seem to make any difference whether I boot from a floppy disk or from the CD-ROM. I've even tried borrowing a Windows 98 CD from work to see if that would work, but exactly the same thing happens.
Can you give me any idea what could be wrong? I thought with a clean-boot, I couldn't go wrong !!
Kind Regards,
Jay/UK
I have recently replaced my desktop PC with a laptop, and I am delighted with it !
I want to sell my desktop PC as a working PC, but at the moment I am mystified as to what is wrong with it. It's had Windows ME on it, and it had a problem - even though the system is functioning, the mouse and keyboard was completely frozen. If you unplugged the mouse (PS2), you could control the system using the keyboard.
I thought it would be best to format the hard drive and try reinstalling Windows ME afresh, but each time I try to do this, it completes the first stage of setup, right up to 100%, then the system tries to access the floppy drive (whether or not there's a disk in it), the system beeps and a small black box appears on the screen. Then nothing can be done other than reboot.
It doesn't seem to make any difference whether I boot from a floppy disk or from the CD-ROM. I've even tried borrowing a Windows 98 CD from work to see if that would work, but exactly the same thing happens.
Can you give me any idea what could be wrong? I thought with a clean-boot, I couldn't go wrong !!
Kind Regards,
Jay/UK