Check your cables first.  It's entirely possible the power cable or the
data cable to the hard drive or motherboard has worked its way loose.


Tony Mayer
Sysop
The Magic FunHouse BBS
http://bbs.magicom.net



>Was asked to check this computer for a friend and this is what showed up
>when I turned the computer on:
>A15TH-H4a-1018
>Pentium-S CPU at 166MHz
>Memory test: 49152k ok
>Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension V1.0a
>Copyright (C) 1996, Award Software, Inc
>Found CDRom:10x
>
>Primary master hard disk fail
>
>Does this mean the hard drive is a goner or how can I check this hard drive?
>
>Apperently it was working ok until it automaticly did a scan when the
>computer was started and from there on it went automaticly into surface
>scan, where it frooze up.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>Regards Martha Shade

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