Hello, everyone. Great forums you have here =)
Recently, I built a computer using the following parts:
INTEL D915PCY Motherboard
INTEL LGA775 Processor (3.4 GHz)
2x Kingston DDR2 533 MHz RAM
nVidia Geforce 6600 GT [by Gigabyte]
SATA 76GB 10k RPM Western Digital hard drive
+ sound card, ethernet card, floppy drive, Mad Dog CD drive..
I had a few problems getting it to run (namely, I somehow lost the jumper for the BIOS pins on the motherboard. Because I had no jumper, it kept running in recovery mode.. took me a while to figure out, too). I don't know if it matters, but I popped out the battery as some instructions stated. I waited ten minutes and then placed the battery back, positive side up, which is what I remembered it being before I removed it. I only did that because I was at a loss at what else could be done to get the system running. Now, the system boots up fine and recognizes all devices, except..
The problem is that after the POST, an error pops up:
"Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device"
I had made a floppy that had the upgraded BIOS on it and had stuck it in the system before powering it up. I know the floppy works, because it worked on another system. I tried installing Windows XP without the upgraded BIOS to see if it would work, and it did. I suppose that means that the CD drive works, but I have no way to tell if the floppy drive does.
From what I can see in the [F2] Bios Setup Utility, it is recognized. I don't see why the floppy drive wouldn't work.. after all, it's just a floppy drive, with power & connection to mobo.. The boot order is Floppy, Hard Drive, CD-Rom. And no matter what I do, the computer keeps throwing the error at me.
Ideas? Save me?
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