[wellylug] HP Pavilion BIOS Problem

[Jethro Carr]

I have a HP Pavilion 4422. I had to start windows 98 to run a weird dvd,
that didn't work in Ogle.Windows crashed on boot (typical), and I had to
power off the computer.

Now, when I boot up,the bios detects both hard drives correctly, but I
can't boot, and I get a blank screen, with a blinking cursor.

 I also tried booting from the cdrom, and floppy drive, but the computer
boots a bit, and then locks up.

I checked the boot order in the bios, but both the hard drives have been
labeled as Maxor-PM906, or something like that. All the other parts of
the BIOS display the hard drives correctly.

I belive that the boot sector might have been corrupted. I have tried to
fix it by playing around with the bios settings, and by removing the
BIOS battery


Any ideas/solutions/posibilities?


thanks,


--- Jethro

dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz

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