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


>From: joseph marty <[log in to unmask]>
>
>My office bought 23 HP's, and all of them failed in the first year.  Some
>failed several times.  These had 700 mhz celeron CPU's with 10 gig drives.
>They all sucked, and had to be repaired all the time.  Dump 'em and get
>something decent, they'll never stop failing.
>
> >My school purchased some HP Pavilion celeron computers (against my
> >recommendation).  The warranty on all of them has expired and now, one by
> >one, they are quitting.  By that, I mean they come up with the "no
>operating
> >system found" when trying to boot.  Did all the fdisk/format routine, but
> >the bios will not recognize the drives.  Put them in my own computer and
> >same thing.  Fdisk will not work (message says there are no fixed disks).
>  I
> >put my own hard drive into each of the computers and they worked fine.
> >
> >I noticed that these computers have no power supply fan nor any other
> >cooling, except for the cpu.  I'm thinking the hard drives are
>overheating
> >(classroom is warm too).  I've never seen a computer power supply without
>a
> >fan.  Does anyone think it would be a good idea to replace the hard
>drives,
> >along with a cooling fan installed?
> >
> >Has anyone seen this problem with HPs?
>
>
>


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