new upgrade, boot problem

[Guest]

Hi, having just undertaken my first "major" DIY surgery, in upgrading the mobo, processor and graphics card, I have found that everything seems to work, except that the system will not boot unless the Windows 98 CD is in the drive.

If I try to boot "normally" from the HD, the system just goes straight to the MSDOS prompt.

As far as I can see all Bios settings are correct, and I partitioned and formatted the drive before reinstalling Windows.

Can anyone PLEASE offer any advice, as this is driving me to distraction!

thanks

Nick

 

[Flyboy]

Did you try setting the Boot sequence to: A,C,Cdrom in the BIOS? And make sure the floppy start-up disk is not in the drive!

 

[svol]

Go to DOS and type: C:\fdisk /mbr this will repair your Master Boot Record maybe something gone wrong under setup and the MBR wasn't configurated good. Running Scandisk might also help.

My case has so many fans that it hovers above the ground .

 

[The_Neon_Cowboy]

I would just reload the os and blame it on Microsoft...

<font color=blue>The Hardware Junkie</font color=blue>

 

[OldBear]

Question. Why are you bringing up old posts?



<font color=blue><b>You get what you pay for...all advice here is free.</b></font color=blue>