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| Have a great Sunday! P.S. I'm curious and have always wanted to ask -
is
| this your "job" or do you guys just do this for "fun?"???!!!
It's therapy these days in most loony bins now that lobotomy is
outlawed, you'll soon see!
--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR
pcrrcp@netzero.net
"Dana" <Dana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5A89C7FF-85BD-4A61-A3B1-3A27907A95DF@microsoft.com...
| Brian,
| I was also thinking it was a boot-order issue, but we pooped out....
This
| was an all afternoon over the phone thing with my 65-year-old mother!
I CAN'T
| TAKE IT ANYMORE!! HA!! But I did pretty good in getting her to take
the HD
| and CD out and move the jumpers! We did venture into the bios once or
twice,
| but .......
|
| The Bios are hard to navigate over the phone and I'm not sure I could
get
| her to boot order area but MEANWHILE, I can't thank you enough for
ALL your
| help - After eleventybillion phone calls, and at this risk of us
killing each
| other
| (over the phone), I "gave up" and said I really didn't know what else
to do.
| Since this was for a friend of my mom's, we've now convinced her to
buck up
| and go buy a new computer.. Anyone in the market for a boat anchor??!!
|
| I do appreciate your help - maybe I'll tackle it another time - but
really,
| I kinda doubt it.... it would mean my driving to go pick it up and
with gas
| at $3 a gallon, that's not likely!!
|
| Have a great Sunday! P.S. I'm curious and have always wanted to ask -
is
| this your "job" or do you guys just do this for "fun?"???!!!
|
| Thanks again,
|
| "Brian A." wrote:
|
| > If the boot disk is not in the floppy drive when she gets the
error message,
| > she needs to change the boot disk order in the BIOS. Look in the
BIOS under
| > "setup options" or similar for "boot sequence" or similar. Set the
boot order
| > for: A, HD, CD. Save and reboot without the 98 boot disk in the
floppy drive.
| > Post back with the results.
| >
| > --
| >
| > Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
| > Conflicts start where information lacks.
| > http://basconotw.mvps.org/
| >
| > Suggested posting do's/don'ts:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
| > How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
| >
| >
| >
| >
| > "Dana" <Dana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > news:EF60271C-7ECF-4FCC-A71B-B4067B6382D5@microsoft.com...
| > > Brian,
| > > Ok, set the jumpers on the cd as slave. HD is a master. Still
getting the
| > > Disk Boot Failure....
| > >
| > >
| > >
| > > "Dana" wrote:
| > >
| > >> ok brian,
| > >>
| > >> so first we jumper the CD as slave.... would we start up with the
system
| > >> disk in?
| > >>
| > >> I finally did get a win98 boot disk file off the net to email
her which she
| > >> just used to boot from - it doesn't find the cd (obviously) and
is giving her
| > >> a ton of troubleshooting / help info
| > >>
| > >> "Brian A." wrote:
| > >>
| > >> > "Dana" <Dana@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > >> > news:664369AC-F983-4C98-95B0-2F7EF913A653@microsoft.com...
| > >> > > ok, well, the HD is set to master now and the cd is set to
nothing.
| > >> >
| > >> > HD set as Master is fine, CD set as NONE is NOT. The CD must
be set as
| > >> > Slave
| > >> > if it is on the same IDE channel as the HD. A setting as NONE
means that
| > >> > no
| > >> > other devices are attached to the ribbon cable.
| > >> >
| > >> >
| > >> > STill get
| > >> > > a Disk Boot Failure - in the bios - (really hard to make my
way through
| > >> > > that
| > >> > > on the phone), she has the choice of IDE Hard Disk
Detection - which
| > >> > > takes
| > >> > > her to Primary Master, Secondary Master, Primary Slave,
et.c.... She said
| > >> > > the
| > >> > > choices are N for SKIP and 1 for Yes.... I told her to pick
yes(??)
| > >> >
| > >> > Get the drives jumpererd properly first, then if there is
still a "boot
| > >> > disk
| > >> > failure", we can deal with that.
| > >> >
| > >> >
| > >> > --
| > >> >
| > >> > Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
| > >> > Conflicts start where information lacks.
| > >> > http://basconotw.mvps.org/
| > >> >
| > >> > Suggested posting do's/don'ts:
http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
| > >> > How to ask a question:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
| > >> >
| > >> >
| > >> >
| > >> >
| >
| >
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