Cant Boot

truckpuller · July 18th, 2006, 09:24 PM

I have an intel mobo(SE440BX2) with a PIII 600 mhz cpu on it that im bringing out of retirement . I put a hard drive in it and fired it off and it keeps telling me to remove media and hit any key to resume and also it will not recongise the floppy so i took it out and changed Bios to say there was no floppy and have boot sequence set to boot cd/dvd then hard drive and i have cd/dvd set to master and hard drive set too slave.

Thanks in advance TP

Jarhed7276 · July 18th, 2006, 09:45 PM

Try setting the hard drive as Primary Master and CD/DVD drive to Secondary Master.

Mickwish · July 18th, 2006, 09:45 PM

So you are saying it won't boot from a bootable CD now? I'd set the Hard Drive as master and the CD as slave to start with, and check the jumpering on both devices.

Good to see ya back, TP!

Cheers
Mick

A#1 · July 18th, 2006, 09:57 PM

i have western digital IDE hard drives...i'm not sure about other manufacturers but with WD if your only running one drive you wont need a jumper on the hard drive...i'd set the optical drive to master.

truckpuller · July 18th, 2006, 10:29 PM

I'll try changing them around and see what happens

The funny thing is that i put the old hard drive back in it that i use to run on and same thing popped up" remove media and hit any key to resume"

Good to see you Mick

I never did like Intel .

Mickwish · July 18th, 2006, 10:43 PM

Maybe it's waiting for a BIOS flash or something?

Might need to reset the CMOS if it has a jumper or a setting in the BIOS for that. Try reconfiguring the drives fiorst, and if that fails, try resetting the CMOS.

Cheers
Mick

truckpuller · July 19th, 2006, 12:13 AM

Well i reset CMOS and changed the selections around and it still didnt work sooo i put the old hard drive in also on secondary and master and it booted up to windows 98 i want to run win xp pro and the old hard drive is only 1.2 gigs. Now im trying to figure out how to get the cd to copy win xp to the new drive while i have this thing fired up.

Thanks again TP

Mickwish · July 19th, 2006, 12:19 AM

Does the CDdrive work, TP? I've never copied winXP to a HDD to install so I'm not sure how that's done, actually.

Cheers
Mick

Mickwish · July 19th, 2006, 12:25 AM

Can't vouch for this method, but it may be worth a shot if you cant boot from CD.

Quote:

Some hints on installing Windows from DOS

For XP, copy all the contents of the i386 folder from the CD to a folder
you make on C: called i386. Then navigate to that folder and type winnt.exe

However, the above method should NOT be used for versions of XP other than
the original.

From here

Cheers
Mick

truckpuller · July 19th, 2006, 12:32 AM

I reformatted the new HD for windows 98 thinking at least i would get some kind of boot up out of it which it does to a dos prompt but cant get it to copy or reformat win xp from a boot up prompt.

I just built a new computer and had no problems but these old ones are a pain