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Cannot load OS

Started by TJERKIN22 , May 06 2010 10:24 AM

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TJERKIN22

Posted 06 May 2010 - 10:24 AM

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I woke up this morning and I was having glitches in my screen white lines and white dots all over so I figured my graphics card had burnt out I have two so I switched them and system restored to factory settings and went to reboot. When I rebooted my bios gave me an error so I went and set that back to defaults as well.

Now when I go to start my PC i get the bios load screen then it begins to try and post and I get the error Floppy Drive Fail (40) I have read that a setting may have been reverted in the bios but I can not find anything out of place saying anythign about a floppy drive.

After trying to continue through the post it just gives me a black screen and does not begin loading the operating system.

PLEASE HELP

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diabillic

Posted 06 May 2010 - 05:21 PM

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Double check your boot order starts with your HDD. Do you see the loading bar at all for Windows or do you just see the BIOS splash screen followed by a black screen?