[Leaplist] Re: boxen won't install OS

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kestrel7 wrote:
> Anybody want to plan to help me figure out why three boxen here won't
> load *any* OS?
>
> Yeah, they even reject Windoze, which all formerly ran.
>
> One is a problem; two is a coincidence; but three sounds like some sort
> of electronic conspiracy! (That or I'm have a really big stupid attack.)
>
> I didn't see this answered earlier, if it was just ignore.
> On some older motherboards there is a setting in the BIOS to prevent 
> the MBR from being overwritten by a boot sector virus and if this is 
> set to enabled no OS will install.  I'm thinking the setting was under 
> advanced.  I remember a lot of head scratching over that one back in 
> the day.
> HTH,
> Pat.
>
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1. checked the media? Tried a new copy?
2. turned off the 'Virus Protection' that, in Award BIOS is the first 
item on the second screen.
3. Boot order is CDrom, Floppy, HDD0?

Pat, I have had 'stupid' attacks, like with two VIA chipped units that 
had trouble with the mouse
and I tried a PS2 Optical, and a USB ball mouse, and was pulling out my 
hair until I changed to a functional mouse!
The bad ones wouldn't let in a new USB mouse, either, as long as one of 
them were connected!

Those two had gone bad.  That can happen with media, also!  It can 'go 
bad'!