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  1. December 1st, 2007, 06:30 PM #1
    Barov4e
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    Problem with boot

    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%.
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  2. December 1st, 2007, 06:45 PM #2
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    hmm... I could be way off here, but have you tried upgrading your bios?

    just a thought.
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  3. December 1st, 2007, 07:14 PM #3
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    No,I can't because my HDD is empty(new).
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  4. December 1st, 2007, 07:27 PM #4
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    It is sometimes possible possible to perform an BIOS upgrade even though the HD is blank...

    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
    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.

    more info here:

    http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/33/3
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  6. December 2nd, 2007, 01:40 PM #5
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    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?
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  7. December 2nd, 2007, 02:21 PM #6
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    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.

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  8. December 2nd, 2007, 06:58 PM #7
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    do you have a bootable HDD that you could throw in there?
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    another option might be booting from a bootable thumb drive...
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  11. December 5th, 2007, 08:59 AM #9
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barov4e
    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.
    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.
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  12. December 5th, 2007, 10:21 AM #10
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    Some boards refuse to boot if the harddrive isn't set as master.
    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.

    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?
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