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A7v266-e boot no floppy drive installed
How does one get an A7v266-E to boot properly with no floppy drive
installed? The box I'm using at home has no floppy drive on it... not at all. There are several BIOS settings involved w/floppies, but if I turn them all off, the machine will not boot. It will post but not boot into Windows-XP. It stops immediately after doing the Promise controller biz and goes no further. If, on the other hand, I turn on the boot floppy seek, boot halts with an "F1 or DEL (40)" message. Any suggestions? Micheal. |
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"Ed" wrote in message ... On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:09:28 GMT, "Aardvark F. Bandersnatch, Esq." wrote: How does one get an A7v266-E to boot properly with no floppy drive installed? The box I'm using at home has no floppy drive on it... not at all. There are several BIOS settings involved w/floppies, but if I turn them all off, the machine will not boot. It will post but not boot into Windows-XP. It stops immediately after doing the Promise controller biz and goes no further. If, on the other hand, I turn on the boot floppy seek, boot halts with an "F1 or DEL (40)" message. Any suggestions? Micheal. You could set the "Halt on Errors" in the bios to something like "keyboard only" or "None " if you have that option, but you may have some other problem, not familiar with Promise controllers. After mucking about with the BIOS settings, I've gotten it to boot properly, but it hangs for about twelve seconds following the Promise controllers. odd, but it works. Thanks. Micheal. |
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