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I searched on the internet and one website told me to reboot the computer with an old 95,98 2000 or ME startup disk booting with cd support then after that loads put in xp and that worked the computer is loading xp as I type this. Thanks for all the help and suggestions.

Yes I have formatted it 3 different times. If it's missing there's got to be a way to put it back right???

OK I tried your suggestion but that didn't work so while I had everything unplugged I removed the jumper pin from the drive completly and tried again and the Bios finally recognized it. I then ran though the data life tools steps and afterwards it told me to put in the XP disc but when I reboot...

hello all, my brother has a 1.4 Ghz amd athlon 256mb ram CPU. His original Hard drive was 40Gig running Windows 98SE that hard drive went bad so he bought a new Western Digital 80Gig. Now I tried loading XP on it for him and it initializes and runs through the setup process then it...

Hello again, I'm having a problem with the cd rom on my newer computer. It's an Amd athlon 2.09Mhz processor 1 gig ram Wix Xp. OK I a cd rom re-writable burner lite-on LRT-48327s standard cr rom came with Cpu. I have the program roxio easy cd.. and when I burn a cd everything works...

Wow I totally forgot about the jumpers the zip drive didn't even have a jumper luckly I had a spare. Thank you for fixing my problem who would have thought something so little could be so big. Thanks again for the help it was a big time saver.

Hello Everyone, My father won an old computer Tower in a raffle for the place that he works It is a pentium 3 1ghz processor 512mb ram windows XP Pro SP2. Now it came with 1 cdrom drive, 1 floppy drive and 1 Hard drive 20 gig. Now we had an internal zip drive lying around so I put...

Just to update I bought a new PSU and so far the computer is still on but I still have to wait it out because when it shutdown sometimes it took seconds. sometimes it took hours so I'm crossing my fingers hoping this will fix it.

Thanks for the extra insight and the picutres it is a socket style and I guess I'll have to scrape some money together in the next couple months and decide if I want to fix it or not. thanks again.

From what you've told me I have a socket A style Motherboard.

I know alot about computers but that is one thing I do not know. How can you tell what socket style you have on you Motherboard and what does it do?

The computer was orignally bought in 98 and I had an upgrade done around 2000 it only has one memory module If it is the PSU I'm sure I can find one cheap, but are motherboards cheap and would it be cost effective to get a new one if that's the case. BTW I have disconnect the second harddrive...

Hello Everyone, I have an older computer that sits in the kitchen it has an amd athlon processor 256mb ram geforce 2 GFX card and runs Windows 98 SE. OK the computer had A 1.5GB C Drive and a slave drive that's not much bigger and is split into two partitions. The problem I am...