1962-No Operating System Found???????

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I am trying to get Windows 2k to boot, and all it does it come to a screen
that says 1962 no operating system found press ctrl+S to enter set up, I have
NO WAY to get into the BIOS or anything to see what is going on, nor do I
know the correct way to set this up, I am an XP person, and there is no
recover discs for this or anything. it was purchased with all this on it, and
its an IBM Pc. recently purchased from Tiger direct. PLEASE HELP!! I know
its just something simple, and just needs a chkdsc, but need to know how to
get there to do so!
Thanks!
 
Montanalady 35 said:
I am trying to get Windows 2k to boot, and all it does it come to a screen
that says 1962 no operating system found press ctrl+S to enter set up, I have
NO WAY to get into the BIOS or anything to see what is going on, nor do I
know the correct way to set this up, I am an XP person, and there is no
recover discs for this or anything. it was purchased with all this on it, and
its an IBM Pc. recently purchased from Tiger direct. PLEASE HELP!! I know
its just something simple, and just needs a chkdsc, but need to know how to
get there to do so!
Thanks!
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Your post leaves lots of questions unanswered:

- Why can't you get into the BIOS?
- Did you try the usual keyboard tricks (Delete, F1..F12, Esc)?
- Did you check the IBM site for details on your specific PC?
- Did you read all the screen messages at boot time?
- Did you press "Pause" to pause them?
- What screen messages do you see?
- What is the recent history of the machine?
- Did you recently add any hardware or software?
- Did the machine every run while it was in your possession
or did you perhaps buy a lemon?

As a starting point you could boot the machine with a Win98
boot disk (www.bootdisk.com), then use fdisk.exe to set the
hard disk to "active".

Incidentally, Win2000 is exactly the same as WinXP for the
purpose of getting it to boot.
 
This is an error message returned from your system bios and may indicate
some hardware has failed. Also try booting a win98 startup disk and make
sure the system partition is marked active


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