Upon POST, I get a boot disk failure message. I changed hard disks and still have the same problem. Pressing F2 doesn’t open Setup, nor does F12 open Boot options. Simply ignores keypress until the failure message and then sticks. If I insert a CD, I get the “Press any key to boot from CD”… message, and when I do press a key, then I get the failure message again after only a few seconds.
Am using XP Pro on a Compaq Presario 5000 (yes, old it is) with 512 ram and 40gb hdd. The error occurred suddenly with no advance symptoms noted.
Anyone have any ideas?
