Anyone ever have this system problem occur??

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  • Scootermuze
    Confirmed User
    • Dec 2001
    • 4513
    #1

    Anyone ever have this system problem occur??

    Trying to put together a little system from pieces & parts that have been scattered about.. which I do on ocassion..

    This time it's wantin to be stubborn..

    The bios boot sequence = a, c, cdrom

    It does the floppy handshake

    checks the memory

    Identifies the hd and cd drives

    then it'll empty the screen and show:

    Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM:

    The hd boots fine on another system, as does the floppy..

    Any thoughts??
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    • FuqALot
      Confirmed User
      • Dec 2001
      • 3817
      #2
      Someone told me to boot to dos or anything and then type 'fdisk /mbr'. It fixed it but I have no idea what that 'fdisk /mbr' does, so it might also do things you won't like, but you could give it a try.

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        • rowan
          Too lazy to set a custom title
          • Mar 2002
          • 17393
          #3
          How old are the bits? Check the BIOS to make sure you have normal/large/LBA mode set correctly for your HD...

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            • Scootermuze
              Confirmed User
              • Dec 2001
              • 4513
              #4
              Originally posted by FuqALot
              Someone told me to boot to dos or anything and then type 'fdisk /mbr'. It fixed it but I have no idea what that 'fdisk /mbr' does, so it might also do things you won't like, but you could give it a try.
              fdisk /mbr just fixes the master boot record..

              But I can't boot to anything because, even though it checks the floppy and hd during boot, it apparently won't read either one..

              It just pops the atapi cdrom stuff up..

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                • Scootermuze
                  Confirmed User
                  • Dec 2001
                  • 4513
                  #5
                  Originally posted by rowan
                  How old are the bits? Check the BIOS to make sure you have normal/large/LBA mode set correctly for your HD...
                  Bios is currently set to auto, and it picks up on the hd fine.. I've also tried identifying the drive manually in bios.. it picked it up that way as well.

                  But even if I had no hd at all, and had a dos boot disk in the floppy, it should boot to dos..

                  For some reason, once it gets past the indentifications and handshakes, it wants to look to the cd rom to boot from..

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                    • KRL
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                      • Oct 2002
                      • 31429
                      #6
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                        • Scootermuze
                          Confirmed User
                          • Dec 2001
                          • 4513
                          #7
                          Originally posted by KRL
                          You got the sequence setting fucked up.
                          How can a, c, cdrom be fucked up?

                          Also tried 'c only' .. does the same thing..

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