MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: I've got a BOONDOGGLER for you! Blank screen boot from infinity!

> I cloned the drive, and for some reason it wouldn't boot from the clone. See the
> bios, see the boot menu, HDD and DVD are recognized/show in the list - then blingo,
> blank. Sits there forever. At some weird-ass resolution of 87khz. I re-connected the
> original drive, and now the same thing. Changed boot order to DVD. Same thing. F8 no
> worky, either.
>
> Unplugged and pulled battery. Disconnected all peripherals. (And re-did bios
> settings, cos it needs special settings to boot.) Still the same.
>
> Connected a monitor simultaneously to the hdmi port. Same on both monitors.
>
>
> -- Some later things....
>
> - HDD gets hot
>
> - tried to update bios, and I got a continous beeping, which net source says is
> memory, but memtest won't load from cd either, so......

Does the computer still boot from the original drive?

It's possible that whatever program you used to clone the drive did not clone the partitions correctly. I remember having to make sure the first sector was bootable or something back when I first attempted to clone a drive a few years back.