Thanks, ended up trying a USB memory stick, which worked for awhile during testing then stopped booting. Gave that away when I couldn't find a reason as to why it wouldn't load and installed a 3rd hard drive, just to load the OS onto. That worked for awhile and now it doesn't boot up either.
I suspected that there may be a hardware issue on the Motherboard and have moved SATA cables around to try and see if it is a SATA port issues, but that didn't help.Also removed all hard drives, except for the with with the OS on it without any luck.
What gets me is this PC was working fine, but only with 1 hard drive before with Linux on it, and now it's stopped.
The BIOS sees all the hard drives and USB memory stick when booting up, so I confused that while the PC looks right the NL OS doesn't want to work properly.
When you boot the PC it goes through the normal BIOS startup screens and gets to a point after it detects all the hardware elements in the box and just stops, no beeps or error messages and sits there as if it is expecting to see a boot partition on the hard drive or USB stick. I've aslo booted off the CD disk I made from the NL image and run the diagnostic software, but can't see anything pointing to a PC hardware error. Has anyone had this experience before?
Robert.
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