No Operating system found.

[Guest]

"1962 No Operating system found. Press F1 to repeat boot sequence"

A friend of mine' PC is giving her this error message while she tries to
reboot her computer. She had deleted her cookies and temp net files prior to
rebooting her computer. She was having troubles logging into passworded
protected forums on a board that we are both a member of and therefore
decided to reboot to see if it fixed the problem. Now, she can't get the
comp to boot up at all and keeps getting that error message above along with
a pic of a floppy disk pointing at a pic of a disk drive.

I've already tried to walk her through using her XP CD, but it won't even
get to the point of booting from the CD.

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Jerry]

Go into the BIOS and check the boot order and change as necessary.

 

[Guest]

CHECK FOR NON SYSTEM FLOPPY IN DRIVE MAKE BOOT SEQ FLOPPY 1 HD 2 CD3
IF THAT FAILS CHECK POWER AND EIDE CONNEXIONS. TO ENTER BIOS PRESS
DELETE ON POWER UP FINGERS CROSSED!!!!

 

[James McIninch]

<posted & mailed>

I've seent this on Dell PCs, but it may happen on other hardware.

Basically, the BIOS in a Dell PC required a functioning hard-disk to be
present in the machine and wouldn't even boot from a CD with out it. This
was a little confusing on the Dell systems I was working with, because the
hard disk had a hardware failure and gave the message below. No problem,
I thought, I'll just boot from a CD and see if I could try and figure out
how bad the problem is. Unfortunately, some crappy Dell engineer had
decided that if there's no functioning hard disk, or if the disk times out,
there's no point in trying to boot at all -- even from a fully functioning
drive in the second bay.

Anyway, in the case of the Dell, the message indicated a hard disk failure
and the cure was simply to replace the faulty drive.