-=PCTechTalk=- Gateway PC & strange message

Hi:

I was given a Gateway 2000 computer that runs W98, it's a Pentium 166, 3
gig HD dr. I had it at my house for several days while I dumped the
favorites, emails, documents etc that had belonged to the former owner. I
did nothing that would affect the registry and so forth, just cleaned up
any passwords etc. Changed the Registered Owner since my son & his wife
were to be the recipients of it. I shut down and rebooted several times
during that time with never one problem.

Then delivered it across town (very small town). When we tried to boot up
we received this strange message:

"Insert bootable media in the appropriate drive"  I have never seen this
message before in all the time I had it cleaning it up. Then I tried
putting a W98 boot disk in, same message. So I inserted a W98 CD and the
boot disk, shut down and rebooted. Same message. I tried a few combinations
of leaving one or both in and once it booted up like there was no problem.
But not wanting to leave them with a problem since they are not PC
knowledgeable, I shut it down through the Start>Shut Down. Rebooted. Same
dang message.

What can I do to fix this? Why would it just start doing this all of a
sudden. Do we need to exorcise his house?? LOL It worked fine at my house.

Thanks in advance for any and all help,

USA-Sylvia



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