My pc doesn't boot

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hypnagogue

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My system is not booting up and in very first stage ,,it is givng the error...
L9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

and it doesn't g0 any further...
and also it doesn't detect the IDE master and slave...
what possibly can be wong with it??
 
Have you moved it latley? possibly the IDE cable has come loose. I have had that same error before myself, (I had to re-install windows) but it sounds to me that the cable is loose somehow, try disconnecting then re-connecting the IDE cables and hopefully that will fix it.
 
yeah i moved the system over a distance of 200 km by train...i have tried again & again fixing cables..but of not much help
 
long distance to take a system by train, most likely somethings have been knocked out of place.

How confident are you with systems? is this one you have built yourself?

If so then I would suggest dismantling it and putting her back together again. Basically so that you can be sure that everything is seated correctly
 
i somehow think thats its not fault with hardware...its a Lilo error...

Previously i had linux installed but i removed its partition but now since i changed the monitor it originated i don't know how....i don't know how to correct it...looking for positive responses..
 
As you can see by the title, I am having a problem with the LILO boot loader, but I need to ask my own question because all the ones I've found on google and the internet are for linux.

I tried to install linux on my computer in August. I had slackware 10, and everything was working fine but I was having some trouble configuring the libraries and everyday was a headache with linux so I uninstalled it around feb. 7th. Unfortunately, LILO does not get removed with the installion and trying to uninstall it without linux installed was a "risk", so I just kept it (seeing as I didn't mind). Since feb. 7th, all the way up to this morning (may 6th) LILO has booted fine, Windows XP has booted fine and life was peachy, until this morning. I woke up, turned on the PC to check any mail before work and... BOOM, there it was.

Where LILO is supposed to load, it says L 99 99 99 99 and has about 200 99s, then it just stops and I can only press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to restart, where it just happens again.

So, I've gone online but all the problems seem to be upon install or uninstall of linux, what was done months ago. This problem doesn't seem to happen just out of the blue. I didn't touch the mbr, or any out of the ordinary programs, used any windows maintenance programs, or touched the computer's vital files yesterday. In fact, I spent my day online yesterday doing the normal things I do everyday.

Now, I have seen that the way to fix it is to repair the MBR, but there is a risk to this that could end up in deleting my whole hard drive. Does anyone know what happened, why, and how to fix it?l
 
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