-Found another video card, installed it and I still have the same results
-Also I took a look at my MB book and in the note SECTION it says that they cannot guarantee that all DDR 400 memory will
work so I took a look at the memory I have installed and it is 1 stick of DDR266 and 1 stick of DDR 400. the bios recognizes both. I removed the DDR400 stick and I get the same results and the BIOS shows less memory.
I went ahead and got some new DDR266 coming 1GB (7.95 a stick dirt cheap) its on the way.
none of my older (junk) computers I have have the power supply hook ups
-also the battery for the CMOS is showing 3.20v in the BIOS but I'll get another today to try
-I wish the BIOS did a power supply check. you would think it would because a power supply is pretty IMPORTANT. I will see about getting a new


OK i tried to run the HD recovery floppy and it worked this time. It doesn't do much except check the disk for errors and it had none when either check was done. after I did this the computer does its usual rebooting but I see the windows XP start up WINDOW again for about 10sec. then it powers down and reboots. I don't know what this means again? maybe the OS is corrupted on the HD? if that is so how can you do ANYTHING if you have no access to the HD? if it at least let me go to C: prompt I could do something.
when I run the computer with the new HD (with no OS yet) installed I get that NTLDR missing error again. I'm now trying to run the HD's installation cd again

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DrWeb Cureit looks like a pretty good program but I don't have access to the cd-rom or the program doesn't start before windows loads.