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Serious Boot failure
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Posted by: Nando
Hi everyone, I need some help with the following problem:
- Whenever I try to boot the system (with a Windows XP +SP2 system CD, to format and install) it says "Disk boot failure, insert a system disk..."
-I am sure that the CD is working, I had formatted 2 computers wiht this CD...
-I tried even booting with a Windows 95 CD, but the the error happened again
-I tried with another CD drive
(in all situations, I looked in BIOS to see if the drive was recognized, if the boot sequence was all right...everything was ok there)
-I tried with another IDE cable
-I tried with another RAM (512MB, exchanged for another 512MB from a pc that was working all right)
I had exchanged the HD of this machine, and the cooler of the uprocessor. I am really starting to think that I messed up the motherboard when I changed the cooler... can someone please give me some advice about this matter?
Thank you.
Posted by: Zendu
You sure you have the cd rom drive as the first boot? that sounds like a floppy error to me.
Posted by: redwench
go back into your bios, and make sure the appropriate devices are listed as bootable. then fiddle with the boot order. of course, also check that all devices have power and are properly set for jumpers and cables.
Posted by: Nando
I will look today if there is some place to select the devices as bootable; I had just set the sequence as far as I remember;
The drive was surely powered (I always looked for that before turning the computer on) and the led of the driver was blinking all right (and the drive was recognised in Bios, I think that would not happen if the power of the drive wasn't on...)
Thanks for the repl. everyone, I will try that and be back with what happened.
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