[SECC] Computer Question

[Macie, Gordon]

Sounds like the best plan to me.. Otherwise you may inherit other problems
as well.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary McConville [mailto:wb4sq at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 9:35 AM
To: Greg Richard; secc
Subject: Re: [SECC] Computer Question


Greg,

Its looking for hardware thats different from the
other pc.  You'll probably have to format the hard
drive, load the OS & applications from scratch.

Gary - WB4SQ

--- Greg Richard <k4no at mchsi.com> wrote:
> I have been working to clean up the shack and I have
> a old 486 computer with a dead hard drive.  I put
> another hard drive in the computer and it will now
> start to boot up.
> I don't know what is on this other hard drive and
> not sure how I find out. It was given to me with
> another computer and I have not had need to use it
> til now.
> When the computer with the new hard drive boots up,
> it doesn't get me to a C prompt.  It hangs up before
> getting there. 
> 
>  What do I need to change to get this computer
> working again?  Is it the AutoExec.bat file. when
> the computer boots up or ??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Greg K4NO
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