Wrong bootdisk (for much older system) was inserted in floppy drive of HP pavilion and booted. Since then only startup screen loads and then tries to boot, refuses to acknowledge the harddrive and starts to access A:,and gives a black screen with upperlefthand cursor.I am able to enter BIOS Ran diag. on sys., harddrive, in dos.
Everything ok. Transplanted harddrive to other comp. Fine. reformatted, fresh os install. Still nothing. I accessed BIOS and restored default settings. Didn't help.Reset cmos. Correctly reflashed BIOS. Did't help.Is it possible to have a bad BIOS chip that seems to function correctly.Running out of options. Any ideas. Any comments would be greatly appreciated.