Hello,

John Doue wrote:
> You are not saying what kind of OS is on the replacement hard-drive.
> Without more info, I would suggest you boot into Bios, so that any OS
> problem can be ruled out. If the Bios screen appears correctly, there is
> a good chance the system is not damaged and you need to reinstall the OS
> to confirm this.

the HDD is not the problem, whether with HDD or without makes no difference.

The problem is that the system does not boot into bios. It goes black
before one has the chance to do anything on the system level - in the
few cases it produces a video output. As described in the first post, in
most cases there is no video output at all.

ciao,
Elmar

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