My daughter had a computer a long time ago (386) that
would have that problem and we determined that the
hard drive was stuck.  We would hit it, HARD boot it, or
whatever until it started spinning.  Once it started, it
worked fine until it was powered down.

This was an old obsolete computer by that time so we
really didn't care if it failed.

In your case, I would not take a chance on it.  You are
on borrowed time!  Get everything off the hard drive
and dump it while you still can.  Hard drives are cheap
especially compared to the frustration of dealing with
one that does't work.

Don Elias

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 15:46:08 +0000 MaryJane Wegener
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> Have you done a "hard" reboot?
> When my Compaq Pressario 4910 first came up with
> "operating system not found", I thought it was all
> over. I tried a hard reboot ( "pull the plug" ) and
> it booted just fine. After this happened a few
> more times and I could always do a successfu
> hard reboot, I stopped panicing. Now I turn off the computer
> at a power strip every time I use the software
> shut-down. No more "no operating system found"
> messages. I also physically turn-off my HP Pavillon 8290,
> although I have only had "no o.s found" happen a couple of times
> with that machine.
>        Mary Jane
>
>

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