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hardware trouble

3 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/hardware-trouble.35775/

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mattoo Original post #1
Sep 6, 2006 at 2:55 PM
sir/madam,
ever since i connected my friends harddisk to my pc,it does not boot instead it shows a cursor blinking on the screen. i got it repaired but afterwards when i connected my dvd writer to the mother board,alas,the same condition took over.i dont know what is wrong.is the hard disk faulty....... i m using xp service pack 2.
V
Sep 6, 2006 at 3:05 PM
try checkin ur jumper settings
dOm1naTOr
Sep 6, 2006 at 7:27 PM
First make sure ur HDD got detected in BIOS. If its Primary master, set first boot device to HDD0 or simply Hard Disk[depends on bios make].