One of the first lessons that we learned (practically) about computers in
aviation was that most problems are contact related.
First line of action was shut down and reseat the applicable connections,
whether it be cables or cards. Solved 90% of the problems.
Ray
"JR North" wrote in message
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Reflash the BIOS. There are good 3rd party utilities for this, like
Uniflash.
JR
Dweller in the cellar

Tom Gardner wrote:
I was given a Dell inspiron 8100...not working. It can't find the Hd or
the CD to boot and they both are not in BIOS. I'm assuming a motherboard
but I'm open to suggestions. It seems too coincidental for both drives
to fail. It will see and boot from floppy. Other than the fact that it
doesn't work, it's a nice free laptop.


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