[BC] A puzzling computer problem

[WFIFeng@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/05/2005 11:08:51 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
kevint at aaabloomington.com writes:

> is that even possible?  Could it corrupt the BIOS?  

It may well have a virus, somewhere, which corrupted the BIOS in flash 
memory, or the CMOS memory config. Perhaps not in the Boot Sector, since you did the 
/MBR... but if you ran it from an infected machine, who knows... that virus 
might have tinkered with the FDISK code, preventing the /MBR from working, so 
the code is still there, end it executed as soon as that drive was powered-up.

If you have (or can get) the FLASH utility & a copy of the BIOS (usually both 
are available from the MoBo Mfgr's WEBsite) you should boot from floppy and 
flash the BIOS. If it won't even boot from floppy, you may have to return the 
board. Check the WEBsite and see what they suggest. If nothing there, try their 
Tech Support.

If it's only the CMOS, you could try using the "clear CMOS" jumper, then try 
rebooting with the known-good XP drive. If it works, then you should configure 
the drives to run as master & slave, then put the 80G drive as the slave. 
Boot into XP, and you will be able to use that drive from there. You would be 
wise to run a current virus scan on it, first, though.

Let us know how it turns-out.

Willie...