I have a computer that won't boot up and I'm not sure of the reason.
It was damaged in transit by a courier firm and I'm trying to find out which component is giving me trouble.
When I try and boot the machine, I get an error message saying that no primary IDE drive can be found. That's the hard drive, right?
When I go in the bios ,I see that the hard drive isn't found by the bios, so I think it might be the hard drive.
To test the hard drive ,I put it in another machine and the bios of the machine recognizes it and it boots up ok.
I also test the ram in this way too.
I don't think the video card is anything to do with the problem , or the cpu. So that just leaves the motherboard, right?
Do people here think a new motherboard would solve the problem?
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