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Originally Posted by sparticus
Even without a working HD installed I should at least get the BIOS to boot up on the screen, I get diddly squat, nadda, nothing its black. After consulting with my IT guy at work we have narrowed it down to either the CPU or the MOBO. Thanks for the advice though.
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Okay, I did not understand when you say the machine wont 'POST'. You really meant it wont even boot.
You can try booting the pc with a floppy disc if you have a floppy drive but most new pc dont have a floppy drive anymore.
You are right that the strap bootloader which is memory resident, should boot the disc bootloader from the HD drive. If this works, the disc bootloader should load the XP system from the HD. If step one is not even working, you are right: either motherboard is faulty or HD faulty.