Brings up a related question for me:
I plugged my printer into my fiancee's computer and restarted the
computer. It never rebooted. No POST, no video. Did I mention this
was the week she had to do a project in Office 2000? (The community
college teaches a class *about* Office 2000 -- or else I'd have showed
her how to use OpenOffice.org.)
I've finally had a chance to build her a new computer. (She used my
computer for the project.) Everything's going well. I power down, add
her old hard drive on secondary IDE, and... no POST, no video!
How on earth can a hard drive make a computer not boot? I'm guessing
that if I put a different hard drive in her HP, it'd at least POST.
And is there any hope of getting this old Quantum full-height drive to
work again, or does this sound like a doorstop?
Ben
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