coppertop4646

I posted here about a week ago
Here's my problem
My mom's computer won't boot into Vista...it just says please enter system disk and press a key or it will say something about configuring dhcp?
So I put in the Vista disc and nothing happens....try reinstalling Vista and it doesn't show my hard drive so I have nowhere to install it
Also when I press like F2 to get into BIOS lets say F2 is for system settings it just goes to a black screen that says system settings in the bottom right hand corner instead of the actual BIOS
What do you think the problem may be? The only thing I have done to this computer was plugged in an old keyboard from a gateway than plugged back in the keyboard that came with the computer a couple days later and then this happened.

error10

Do you actually have a hard drive in the computer? Are its power cord and SATA cable plugged in, not loose or anything?

coppertop4646

its an ide and yes its plugged in securely same goes for the power cord

The Llama

Pressing Delete usually gets you into the BIOS.

Did you plug/ unplug the keyboard while it was turned on? I've seen hard drives fried from this (PS2, of course, not USB.)

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noobdown

did you reset the bios yet? did you try the hd in another pc?

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svtfmook

is the hd set in the boot order?

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