If the floppy was bootable and your CMOS settings were set to boot from the
floppy, then a boot failure has nothing to do with the OS installed on the
hard drive. Make sure that the floppy is bootable and the computer is in
fact trying to boot from it. If this is the case, then be sure to check all
the settings in CMOS. Of course, you did not say if you can access the CMOS
configuration or not. Can you do this? The answer would tell us if the
problem is in the boot process or in the system at a lower level.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
I hope someone can help or point me in the right direction.
I have a Micron Millinium PC, 3 years old. XP Home, 512 MB, 2 60 gb hard
drives. Yesterday, my curser repeatedly froze on the screen(the PC froze and
had to be shut off manually andrebooted. Today, the problem got worse and I
now have the blue screen of deathwhere the operating system will not vevn
load.

It was suggested that I try "http://www.memtest86.com" to see if it was a
memory issue. I plugged in the floppy with the files, tried to boot and the
same thing happened.
Is this an OS failure for sure and what can I do to fix it. The company that
sold me the PC did not send a OS recovery disk.

Gary

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