seabat wrote:

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:53:07 -0500, "Dave C." wrote:



OK, two possibilities. First, is the CMOS battery dead? If so, you might
have to replace it and then re-detect or re-program the hard drive settings
in BIOS.



Replaced the battery. BIOS wouldn't detect hard drive (1.28GB) so
entered info manually. Still no go!


Second possibility is that the hard drive was formatted, and boot sequence
is set to hard drive FIRST. In that case, you will get "invalid system
disk". You won't necessarily be able to boot a floppy disk that way. -Dave



The BIOS boot sequence is set in this order: A, C, CD-ROM.
Still no joy! As usual, my luck is holding.......at zilch!



Remove the hard drive. Strange as it may seem, a dead hard drive can cause
both floppy and CD boot failure. Same goes for a bad CD-Drive and floppy as
well so you might need to try each one separately to resolve it.

Plus, since you're having problems with an 'unknown' system, meaning you've
never seen it run, you should not 'assume' that anything on it is cabled or
jumpered correctly. I.E. check it all.