Eeyore wrote:

William Sommerwerck wrote:

One thing you might do is try to boot the machine from a DOS (or similar)
floppy. If it comes up reliably, you can eliminate most of the motherboard
problems.

Hahahahaha !

Now he'll want to know how to make a boot floppy. What if his PC doesn't have
a floppy drive ? Darn useful things.

Graham



Even _you_ should know that http://www.bootdisk.com has free
downloadable images for most Windows versions and other operating
systems.

Download the version you want, run it and insert a blank 1.44
floppy. When the program is done, the floppy is ready to use.

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