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Hi.

What's wrong with this computer? I had a graphics card fail in it, so
I replaced the card and tried booting, and it is real slow to POST and
doesn't want to boot from the hard drive ("DISK BOOT FAILURE"). Yet I
can boot from a CD (slow at "Boot from CD/DVD:" but then it gets it),
and I can read the data on the hard drive from there. Could the
motherboard be toast? (Bad IDE controller? These are IDE disks.) The
hard drive? What?

mike3 wrote:
> Hi.
>
> What's wrong with this computer? I had a graphics card fail in
> it, so
> I replaced the card and tried booting, and it is real slow to
> POST and
> doesn't want to boot from the hard drive ("DISK BOOT FAILURE").
> Yet I
> can boot from a CD (slow at "Boot from CD/DVD:" but then it
> gets it),
> and I can read the data on the hard drive from there. Could the
> motherboard be toast? (Bad IDE controller? These are IDE
> disks.) The
> hard drive? What?

If you can read from the hard disk after booting with a CD, the
hardware is probably OK. The OS installation or the partition may
be corrupted. You may have knocked a connector loose while
replacing the graphics card.

While the computer is completely turned off, push the RAMs and
the IDE cable in firmly. Also check the 4-pin Molex power
connector to the hard disk. Push and pull each of the four wires
_individually_ and see if any of them feels loose.

On Mar 8, 1:42*pm, mike3 <mike4...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> What's wrong with this computer? I had a graphics card fail in it, so
> I replaced the card and tried booting, and it is real slow to POST and
> doesn't want to boot from the hard drive ("DISK BOOT FAILURE"). Yet I
> can boot from a CD (slow at "Boot from CD/DVD:" but then it gets it),
> and I can read the data on the hard drive from there. Could the
> motherboard be toast? (Bad IDE controller? These are IDE disks.) The
> hard drive? What?

I just took out the IDE hard drive and now it doesn't have any
problem. Might've
just been a dying HDD...

mike3 wrote:
> On Mar 8, 1:42 pm, mike3 <mike4...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> What's wrong with this computer? I had a graphics card fail in
>> it, so
>> I replaced the card and tried booting, and it is real slow to
>> POST
>> and doesn't want to boot from the hard drive ("DISK BOOT
>> FAILURE").
>> Yet I can boot from a CD (slow at "Boot from CD/DVD:" but then
>> it
>> gets it), and I can read the data on the hard drive from
>> there.
>> Could the motherboard be toast? (Bad IDE controller? These are
>> IDE
>> disks.) The hard drive? What?
>
> I just took out the IDE hard drive and now it doesn't have any
> problem. Might've
> just been a dying HDD...

Certainly a possibility. But I suggest you check the connectors.
I've come across many cases where symptoms like the ones you
described were caused by improper contacts at the connectors.

In message <d6d5690b-2211-42d7-a677->,
mike3 wrote:
> Hi.
>
> What's wrong with this computer? I had a graphics card fail in it, so
> I replaced the card and tried booting, and it is real slow to POST and
> doesn't want to boot from the hard drive ("DISK BOOT FAILURE"). Yet I
> can boot from a CD (slow at "Boot from CD/DVD:" but then it gets it),
> and I can read the data on the hard drive from there. Could the
> motherboard be toast? (Bad IDE controller? These are IDE disks.) The
> hard drive? What?

What OS are you trying to boot that fails?

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On Mar 8, 2:35*pm, "pimpom" <pim...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> mike3 wrote:
> > On Mar 8, 1:42 pm, mike3 <mike4...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Hi.
>
> >> What's wrong with this computer? I had a graphics card fail in
> >> it, so
> >> I replaced the card and tried booting, and it is real slow to
> >> POST
> >> and doesn't want to boot from the hard drive ("DISK BOOT
> >> FAILURE").
> >> Yet I can boot from a CD (slow at "Boot from CD/DVD:" but then
> >> it
> >> gets it), and I can read the data on the hard drive from
> >> there.
> >> Could the motherboard be toast? (Bad IDE controller? These are
> >> IDE
> >> disks.) The hard drive? What?
>
> > I just took out the IDE hard drive and now it doesn't have any
> > problem. Might've
> > just been a dying HDD...
>
> Certainly a possibility. But I suggest you check the connectors.
> I've come across many cases where symptoms like the ones you
> described were caused by improper contacts at the connectors.

Yeah, I replaced the connecting cable with another one, and it didn't
fix the problem.

On Mar 8, 2:48*pm, §ñühw¤£f <snuhw...@netscape.net> wrote:
> In message <d6d5690b-2211-42d7-a677-f1095ca54...@e7g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>,
>
> mike3 wrote:
> > Hi.
>
> > What's wrong with this computer? I had a graphics card fail in it, so
> > I replaced the card and tried booting, and it is real slow to POST and
> > doesn't want to boot from the hard drive ("DISK BOOT FAILURE"). Yet I
> > can boot from a CD (slow at "Boot from CD/DVD:" but then it gets it),
> > and I can read the data on the hard drive from there. Could the
> > motherboard be toast? (Bad IDE controller? These are IDE disks.) The
> > hard drive? What?
>
> What OS are you trying to boot that fails?
>

It's a Linux system.

§ñühw¤£f <> wrote in
news:hn3r0v$qhg$:

> In message
> <d6d5690b-2211-42d7-a677->,
> mike3 wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> What's wrong with this computer? I had a graphics card fail in it, so
>> I replaced the card and tried booting, and it is real slow to POST
>> and doesn't want to boot from the hard drive ("DISK BOOT FAILURE").
>> Yet I can boot from a CD (slow at "Boot from CD/DVD:" but then it
>> gets it), and I can read the data on the hard drive from there. Could
>> the motherboard be toast? (Bad IDE controller? These are IDE disks.)
>> The hard drive? What?
>
> What OS are you trying to boot that fails?
>
Doesn't matter in the slightest. This problem doesn't go beyond the
BIOS, the motherboard, drive controllers cables and drives.


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