-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway PC & strange message

Sylvia,
Your welcome.
I am just glad it turned out to be something easy.
I know when you are trying to get the computer to work
things can get frustrating.

Good Job!

Glen


--- Sylvia <sylviam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Wahooo! Glen you were absolutely correct about this.
> I am not sure WHAT was
> loose, but we pulled the case and made sure
> everything was seated firmly.
> Reconnected everything and voila! it booted up just
> fine. Thank you so much
> for your input.
> 
> USA-Sylvia
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sylvia" <sylviam@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:27 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway PC & strange
> message
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts on this, Glen. I also
> remember that someplace in
> the different combinations that I tried it did say
> something about W87 has
> detected that C drive down not contain a valid FAT
> or FAT32 partition. I
> had forgotten about that until I read your message.
> If I partition it in
> Fdisk from the MS Dos command prompt then all the
> info on it will be
> erased, correct? And I would need to re-install W98
> right?
> 
> Well of course, when people give away older puters,
> they never give the
> software with it. Like the W98 CD that came with it.
> I did ask the person
> if they had it, but they said no.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> USA-Sylvia
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glen" <glbbrown@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:21 PM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Gateway PC & strange
> message
> 
> 
> 
> Sylvia,
> My first suspect would be a cable had come loose
> during transportation.
> 
> I would open it up and look at the cables to make
> sure
> they are all connect. Also take a look at the drives
> power connections.
> 
> It also could be your bios. Say if the CMOS battery
> came loose and lost all the information in bios.
> Then
> the computer might not know there is drives to look
> for.
> 
> Just my two thoughts.
> 
> Glen
> 
> --- Sylvia <sylviam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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