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My computer = ugh
Ok. A long while back, my mom had this Windows 98 computer. Then she got an XP and gave me the 98. It worked great for years. Then we put it in the closet for about a year because my brother had taken the internet thingie out of the computer. NOW I tried hooking it back up and it says "Searching for BOOT diskette. Place in A:" I have no idea what that is. Can you guys tell me how to fix the diskette problem and how to put internet back in? Thanks.
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It sounds like it can't find the hard drive, either it's unhooked or broken. Turn off the computer, and open it up. Find the hard disk; here's a picture of one:
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Now, find the cord that's coming out of it that looks like this:
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make sure it's hooked to the motherboard(biggest board on the base). If it's not, hook it up to the connector shown here(if there's two of them, guess and change it if it dosn't work):
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If it's already connected, the hard drive may be broken. To test it, put a blank floppy in a windows xp computer, go to start>my computer and right click on the A drive. click format, then "create a boot disk/dos disk" and click format. Put that in the broken computer and restart it. If you get a prompt that looks like:
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then it's almost definitely the hard drive, and you'll have to have it replaced. If it dosn't show up, open the computer(with it off) and make sure everything inside is plugged in. If it still won't show up, take it to a computer repair place. To get the internet to work, get the modem/ethernet card that he took and put it into a slot that looks like this:
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If you still have problems, talk to the better qualified people at protonic.com or take it to a repair place.
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