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Anonymous   08-31-2001 at 02:38:21 PM

Ok I'm building my own computer.

After I have everything hooked up nicely I can't get to a prompt. It won't boot through my floppy disk. I've checked all connections and I'm *absolutetly positive* that the floppy drive is hooked up right.

I've also tried booting up through CD rom, won't work.

The errors I get are something along the lines of "Disk Boot Failure hit enter to try again" and when it tries to read the Floppy I get a "Disk I/O error" message.

What's weird is that I've tried 2 of the same motherboard and it won't work, 2 diff cables, and 2 diff floppy drives (one that I know works). Same problems.

I've heard that it could maybe be my motherboard? I'm still new at this so I don't know, did I pick a crappy motherboard? Please help!

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madmike   09-01-2001 at 03:19:29 AM
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These might be obvious, but have you:
Checked the boot device order in the BIOS?
Drive type set to Auto in BIOS?
How about the jumpers on CD and HDD (master/slave/cs)? Power connected to all devices?
Tried swapping power leads?
Double-checked all ribbon cables?
Tried swapping ribbon cables?
Onboard FDD and IDE controllers are enabled in BIOS?

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jc14all   09-01-2001 at 05:51:58 AM
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What OS startup floppy disk are you using? Did you make the bootup disk with system files added?

JC-------<*){{{>{~~~~~
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Crashman   09-02-2001 at 09:33:07 AM
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Are you ABSOLUTELY SURE it's hooked up right? If the floppy light stays on, it is NOT. Remember that the floppy cable goes opposit the hard drive cable 9the red stripe faces teh right side of the case, as opposed to the hard drive which faces the left side).


Back to you Tom...

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