*Orig posted in Asus forum but I beleive this is a generic problem and not mobo specific so I'd rather post here.....
I've got an [ASUS A7V8X-X] motherboard and now when I boot, or try to, I get a message about 'DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER'.
When I get into the Award BIOS I can see the setting for primary master is set to [AUTO] but none of the drive specifics are filled in as they would normally be for my hard drive. Actually, the only thing on the screen now is the word [AUTO], and nothing else.
Also, if I change the boot sequence to be the CDROM first (to try and boot off my Windows XP CD) the system still does not recognize the new/saved boot sequence and still appears to try booting off of the hard drive (as I still get the same error message above about disk boot failure).
Lastly, I hear two beeps from the board every 20 seconds while the power is on.
I'm looking for any/all assistance as I am at a loss as to what happened and what I should do now.
Thanks!
Walter
I've got an [ASUS A7V8X-X] motherboard and now when I boot, or try to, I get a message about 'DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER'.
When I get into the Award BIOS I can see the setting for primary master is set to [AUTO] but none of the drive specifics are filled in as they would normally be for my hard drive. Actually, the only thing on the screen now is the word [AUTO], and nothing else.
Also, if I change the boot sequence to be the CDROM first (to try and boot off my Windows XP CD) the system still does not recognize the new/saved boot sequence and still appears to try booting off of the hard drive (as I still get the same error message above about disk boot failure).
Lastly, I hear two beeps from the board every 20 seconds while the power is on.
I'm looking for any/all assistance as I am at a loss as to what happened and what I should do now.
Thanks!
Walter