Okay, so I'm on spring break and I'm trying to fix up my parents' PC. And as might be expected of something involving "my parents' PC" there is an issue that I am utterly bewildered by.
I decided to try and format the hard drive, to clear off the crap and start from scratch. Got my backups made, burned a CD with Vista (nobody laugh where I can hear you) on it, and hey, there's a partition with the OS on there anyways, so that's pretty alright. I go into the BIOS- wait, no I don't. Just a black screen when I try to get there. I discover the right keys to press, press 'em, no effect. I try and get there from the little manager program the manufacturer so kindly put on the hard drive. No effect.
It turns out that they had the motherboard replaced once, and now the little Gateway logo won't show up and there's no prompt to hit whatever key to enter setup. Is it possible that there is simply no software there I can use? Any other ideas?
I decided to try and format the hard drive, to clear off the crap and start from scratch. Got my backups made, burned a CD with Vista (nobody laugh where I can hear you) on it, and hey, there's a partition with the OS on there anyways, so that's pretty alright. I go into the BIOS- wait, no I don't. Just a black screen when I try to get there. I discover the right keys to press, press 'em, no effect. I try and get there from the little manager program the manufacturer so kindly put on the hard drive. No effect.
It turns out that they had the motherboard replaced once, and now the little Gateway logo won't show up and there's no prompt to hit whatever key to enter setup. Is it possible that there is simply no software there I can use? Any other ideas?
