[Gllug] Unusual motherboard

[Andy McGarty]

On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:21:36 -0000, Chris Bell  
<chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
>    I have been given a secondhand box with a small VIA-C3-1500  
> motherboard
> carrying a very small hard-mounted processor that could be an ARM chip.  
> The
> only thing I have discovered is that it is probably designed as a  
> dedicated
> POS box. There are two CD drives and a hard disc but it displays  
> "Mercury"
> then boots with an error message "missing NTLDR". Any ideas please?
>
>
Have a look here and download the CD image and burn it as a bootable CD.
http://tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismissing.htm

This then gives you lots of options toi get the PC booting again and how  
to replace the NTLDR when it does.

Or just install Linux on it!




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