Cant get old computer to work!

DaveBennett · 8 Jul 2007 at 21:25

Hey,

My mum asked me to format her old Packard Bell iMedia 6185. I bunged my XP disk in the drive and booted it up, and it didnt auto boot from CD and I could not, and I mean I spent ages trying to, find a way to boot it from disk. I gave up, turned it off, and took the HD out and put it into my other computer and formated it and put XP on it. Loaded fine on the other PC.

Look the HD out and put it back in the other computer, in the mean time I had also updated the mobo bios on the packard bell. Booted it up, didnt get too the Windows XP loading bit. Got to the small white bar loading accross the bottom and when the white bar has loaded full it just sticks on there. Tryed safe mode etc but no luck.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Cheers,

Dave

DaveBennett · 8 Jul 2007 at 21:53

Cheers,

I did look in the bios but could not find ANYTHING about the boot sequence.

We do have one of them red floopys somewhere, but god knows where!

Any other way around it?

Thanks!

DaveBennett · 8 Jul 2007 at 22:06

Ill have a quick look!

Ta

DaveBennett · 8 Jul 2007 at 22:08

Brilliant!

Found it!

Cheers guys!

Havnt been on here for ages. Going to stick around, forgot what a great forum it is

!

Ty

Dave