Only getting 16 colors on the monitor.

On May 23, 3:13*pm, "PCR" wrote:
rincewind wrote:
On May 22, 8:30 pm, "PCR" wrote:
rincewind wrote:
OK, PCR, I printed out what you posted and I'll use it when I get a
chance.

OK. Hopefully, you do get a chance. Sounds pretty horrible now!

You guys are gonna LOVE this one!

He comes down and tells me; "Now it says there's no operating
system!"

This is the guy who worked on it in the first place? The one who
"upped" it? You are a forgiving one! What is the last thing he did
before getting that error?

No. That was a co-worker who's actually gone. (Funny, Wal*Mart tends
to frown on people who sit on the counters, no matter how nice they
are to the customers!)

No. This is my son who is actually the guy USING the mutt computer!
He's mildly austic and doesn't really understand what's going on.
(When I told hime the problem seemed to be with the graphic card
driver, he said; "Oh, I don't have a graphics card!" I could not get
him to understand that without a graphics card, he wouldn't even get
16 colors!)

Alright. I guess he may have meant his is built into the motherboard, as
mine is & as Badour described. Is the thing booting now? Get a Startup
Diskette to examine the partitions as explained in my last post.

http://www.bootdisk.com/, if you don't already have one from "Control
Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Take either one that
applies to your system. Test the Startup Diskette. Put the diskette in &
turn on the computer. Put in a CD and "DIR" the CD. That is, "DIR *X:",
where "X:" is the CD-ROM letter. The Startup Diskette will say which
letter is the CD during boot. (Note: It may be necessary to enter BIOS
Setup & set it to boot the floppy drive above the hard drive.)

Try a "DIR C:"-- does a folder named Windows show up? What does FDISK
show?

This is some really detailed help. Thanks for going through all that
trouble.

It's going to take me awhile to get to this. I'll be back.

rincewind wrote:
On May 23, 3:13 pm, "PCR" wrote:
rincewind wrote:
On May 22, 8:30 pm, "PCR" wrote:
rincewind wrote:
OK, PCR, I printed out what you posted and I'll use it when I
get a chance.

OK. Hopefully, you do get a chance. Sounds pretty horrible now!

You guys are gonna LOVE this one!

He comes down and tells me; "Now it says there's no operating
system!"

This is the guy who worked on it in the first place? The one who
"upped" it? You are a forgiving one! What is the last thing he did
before getting that error?

No. That was a co-worker who's actually gone. (Funny, Wal*Mart
tends to frown on people who sit on the counters, no matter how
nice they are to the customers!)

No. This is my son who is actually the guy USING the mutt computer!
He's mildly austic and doesn't really understand what's going on.
(When I told hime the problem seemed to be with the graphic card
driver, he said; "Oh, I don't have a graphics card!" I could not
get him to understand that without a graphics card, he wouldn't
even get 16 colors!)

Alright. I guess he may have meant his is built into the
motherboard, as mine is & as Badour described. Is the thing booting
now? Get a Startup Diskette to examine the partitions as explained
in my last post.

http://www.bootdisk.com/, if you don't already have one from "Control
Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Take either one that
applies to your system. Test the Startup Diskette. Put the diskette
in & turn on the computer. Put in a CD and "DIR" the CD. That is,
"DIR X:", where "X:" is the CD-ROM letter. The Startup Diskette will
say which letter is the CD during boot. (Note: It may be necessary
to enter BIOS Setup & set it to boot the floppy drive above the hard
drive.)

Try a "DIR C:"-- does a folder named Windows show up? What does FDISK
show?

This is some really detailed help. Thanks for going through all that
trouble.

It's going to take me awhile to get to this. I'll be back.

Very well. An "FDISK /Status" also may be informative. Here is what mine
looks like. I have one Primary & one Extended partition on each hard
drive...

C:\FDISK /Status
Fixed Disk Drive Status
Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage
1 19092 100%
C: 7996
E: 7996
2 38169 100%
D: 7996
F: 7996
G: 7996
H: 7996
I: 6187

But it doesn't have as much information as an FDISK, Option 4 (Display
Partition Information), as posted earlier. Post what you see from these
things. If a Windows partition still exists (DIR shows it to have a
Windows folder), possibly you need to do a SYS on it to get it back into
the bootstrap.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR

rincewind wrote:
On May 23, 3:13 pm, "PCR" wrote:
rincewind wrote:
On May 22, 8:30 pm, "PCR" wrote:
rincewind wrote:
OK, PCR, I printed out what you posted and I'll use it when I
get a chance.

OK. Hopefully, you do get a chance. Sounds pretty horrible now!

You guys are gonna LOVE this one!

He comes down and tells me; "Now it says there's no operating
system!"

This is the guy who worked on it in the first place? The one who
"upped" it? You are a forgiving one! What is the last thing he did
before getting that error?

No. That was a co-worker who's actually gone. (Funny, Wal*Mart
tends to frown on people who sit on the counters, no matter how
nice they are to the customers!)

No. This is my son who is actually the guy USING the mutt computer!
He's mildly austic and doesn't really understand what's going on.
(When I told hime the problem seemed to be with the graphic card
driver, he said; "Oh, I don't have a graphics card!" I could not
get him to understand that without a graphics card, he wouldn't
even get 16 colors!)

Alright. I guess he may have meant his is built into the
motherboard, as mine is & as Badour described. Is the thing booting
now? Get a Startup Diskette to examine the partitions as explained
in my last post.

http://www.bootdisk.com/, if you don't already have one from "Control
Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Take either one that
applies to your system. Test the Startup Diskette. Put the diskette
in & turn on the computer. Put in a CD and "DIR" the CD. That is,
"DIR X:", where "X:" is the CD-ROM letter. The Startup Diskette will
say which letter is the CD during boot. (Note: It may be necessary
to enter BIOS Setup & set it to boot the floppy drive above the hard
drive.)

Try a "DIR C:"-- does a folder named Windows show up? What does FDISK
show?

This is some really detailed help. Thanks for going through all that
trouble.

It's going to take me awhile to get to this. I'll be back.

Very well. An "FDISK /Status" also may be informative. Here is what mine
looks like. I have one Primary & one Extended partition on each hard
drive...

C:\FDISK /Status
Fixed Disk Drive Status
Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage
1 19092 100%
C: 7996
E: 7996
2 38169 100%
D: 7996
F: 7996
G: 7996
H: 7996
I: 6187

But it doesn't have as much information as an FDISK, Option 4 (Display
Partition Information), as posted earlier. Post what you see from these
things. If a Windows partition still exists (DIR shows it to have a
Windows folder), possibly you need to do a SYS on it to get it back into
the bootstrap.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
Should things get worse after this,
PCR