[Gllug] Unusual motherboard

[John Edwards]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:21:36PM +0000, Chris Bell 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?

The NTLDR is the Windows NT/2k/XP boot loader. So it looks like this
was running Windows but has not had the disk fully wiped (possibly
just had the partition table removed).

The VIA C3 processor is i386 compatible so try booting something like
knoppix from the CD drives. If not then move the hard drive to another
machine and install it there.

No idea about "Mercury". Maybe the name of the motherboard or company?


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