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Hi all,
I have a problem with booting my pc. When I tried to boot from CD it prints: "boot from CD" and freezes. The same is when a try to boot from the floppy. When I put non-system disk it tells me Invalid system disk and when I put system disk it freezes, but when I press enter it reads the floppy but freezes again. Have anybody some similar problem? The CD and the floppy are working 100%.
hmm... I could be way off here, but have you tried upgrading your bios?
just a thought.
No,I can't because my HDD is empty(new).
It is sometimes possible possible to perform an BIOS upgrade even though the HD is blank...
sometimes, you will have this option in your SETUP as well. If this is available, just put the .bin or .rom file onto a floppy, back up the old bios, replace it with the new one, and reboot.Quote:
During POST (i.e. memory counting right after you turn on your PC), press the Pause key. See if there is a message telling you to press a key to enter the BIOS programmer. The problem here is that the BIOS programmer name varies a lot, depending on the motherboard manufacturer. AWFLASH, QBIOS, QFLASH, EZFLASH and FLASH UTILITY are some of the names you may find.
From what the article said, the most common keystroke to enter the BIOS programmer is ALT-F2
more info here:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/33/3
It hasn't got non of these options for update :( Is it possible to resolve that boot problem without updating the BIOS? Why it reads the floppy/CD but doesn't boot and freezes?
Ok guys, I did it! I was put the HDD on the middle of the ATA cable and CD was at the end. Just replace them and it booted.
Regards!
do you have a bootable HDD that you could throw in there?
another option might be booting from a bootable thumb drive...
Some boards refuse to boot if the harddrive isn't set as master. Looking at your solution I'm guessing the cable was a "cable select" one. Meaning the position dictates master or slave.Quote:
Originally Posted by Barov4e
Yes, there is generally a jumper that lets you set M/S/CS but these days drives seem to be defaulted to CS, or M/CS.Quote:
Some boards refuse to boot if the harddrive isn't set as master.
I wonder about this setup though. It always used to be conventional thinking that you didn't mix hard drives and optical devices on the same cable?
Yes but that mostly stemmed from a period where your harddisk was able to do DMA and the CD drives only did PIO modes. That's not a good idea (performance wise) to mix on the same cable. These days CD drives can also do DMA and it shouldn't matter that much. That said, if you have 1 harddisk and 1 cd drive you might as well put each on it's own controller.
I was looking back over this thread... and it looks like I totally missed the post where the OP said that it was working again :o ... oops :D