Nobody has ventured an answer on this yet possibly because you haven't said
what it does do at the point where your machine freezes. Are there any error
messages?

I'm guessing that the BIOS is detecting the Hard Drive Correctly, because
you mention that it displays the system info. Any chance your hard drives
are listed there? Correctly?

First I would do is to make sure the drives are correctly detected in the
BIOS. If your drives are not detected there correctly, swith off your PC
earth yourself, open your box and make sure the cables (either from the
power supply or IDE/SCSI cables) haven't become loose, either on the drives
or on the controller - it happens.

One concern I do have though, is that you mentioned that booting to a floppy
is also not possible. I didn't mention this as a first priority, because
some people prefer to disable booting from a floppy in the BIOS to protect
against boot sector viruses. You may want to check your BIOS if this is the
case with you.

Assuming your BIOS cannot detect either drive and booting from floppy is
enabled and your cables are correctly plugged, you may want to try a new
IDE/SCSI Ribbon. If this doesn't succeed, you may to take your PC to a
skilled technician who can test your motherboard to ensure that there isn't
a failure in the

Is it possible that you try booting a different drive perhaps?

Have you perhaps made any changes to your system lately?

Unless you are able to give more details, I think I'm out of suggestions.

Good luck
Brendon


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>I have a PC which won't boot anymore, it gets past the memory check,
displays system info and then stalls, won't boot from a boot floppy either.
>My guess is that it can't read the hard drive anymore, the trouble is I
don't know what to do about it.

>System is a pentium 233, 32 MB RAM, running Win98. 2 640 MB hard drives

>Any help much appreciated.
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