The post, I think, comes from the BIOS on the mobo, and it checks the hardware.  It should say (although awfully quickly) if it doesn't find something, like the hard drive).   AnnaSummers


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Don Penlington 
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Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Old computer won't boot


Anna wrote:
>I  just tried to fix an old, non-booting PC for someone, too.  Turned out 
>it was just a bad hard drive.>>


Did you get any POST (dos) screen at all with the old drive? Or any signs 
of disk hunting?

Don Penlington


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