my pc is not loading the os from the hard drive.
at post it memory checks fine finds the hard drive fine and all the cd drives but.
it doesnt boot of the hard drive after.
it used to give me the option to pick 2000 or 98 but now it just stops and does nothing.
and it also finds the proccesor as 350mhz but to the left it says host 100 mhz ive never had that before. ive tried a different hard drive that had 98 on it and i still get the same.ive changed ide cables and reset the bios.checked the manual the lot wot could be causing this.
my mate took of all the jumpers of this board being an idiot.
i looked through the manual and placed them were i think they should be.is there a jumper that make the pc not boot the hard disk.
it does whir up.
plllleeeeaaase help.this computer has been sold to my friend and he is collecting it later.

I am getting confused now with you saying it used to give you the option of 2K or 98, does this mean that the drive you have in now has or has been dual booted ?
If it was set up as a slave with the second OS on then the original master will have the MBR on it that allows selection of either drive/OS.
I am not sure that you can take a dual booted slave drive and set it up as the master by itself.
As far as I know the only jumper that would stop it booting into its OS is the clear CMOS one not being set in the normal position  

As Rodders said, check the boot order in your BIOS.  Could be as simple as that.  

As for it reading 100MHz next to the 350MHz for the CPU details, I believe that 100MHz refers to the clock speed.

Almost Rodders  

The 100MHz refers to the BUS SPEED. This speed setting sounds correct for a 350Mhz. The CLOCK SPEED for your processor will be "3.5x"  --- 3.5 x 100Mhz = 350Mhz, so I think all is well there.

It sounds like there may be a boot sector problem, or boot.ini file problem. Download the HDD diagnostic software from the HDD's manufacturers website, create a bootable floppy, and use that to make sure your HDD is ok.

IF you were to take another HDD (With Windows on) and put it into this computer, the chances of it working are slim - because the hardware is different (isn't it?) You said you checked it on another machine.... which is strange....

...but if that is the case, then it would point more at the mainboard causing an problem.

Almost Rodders  

Sorry, I can't think and type at the same time.   :-[

well she ask the question a couple of days earlier with a deadline of, if i read right, a couple of hours. Im curious what the conclusion of this story was???