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by phdj2000 2 views

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Hi,
I've put a pc together a pc as follows..

1.5 Athlon proc
Asus A7S333 ddr motherboard
256 ddr ram
40 gig ibm ide hard drive
Nvidia geForceMX2 graphics card
Creative soundblaster sound card
Net connect 10/100 modem
LG 52x cdrom
floppy drive
56k internal modem

It booted ok but when I tried to boot from a windows xp cd it just said "No Emulation" and did nothing.
I tried to boot from an old windows 98 cd and it went into the setup program. I went through and chose to configurethe drive for faster access cos it's a large drive (or whatever it says) and all it did was give me a black screen that says "Press any key to reboot". If I press any key it reboots. If I don't press a key it just sits there.
i've tried rebooting with the 98 cd in the drive, rebooting with the xp cd in the drive, and rebooting with no cd in the drive and each time I just get a black screen with the message "Press any key to reboot" at the top.

Does anyone have any idea what's going on. Please help.

Phil.

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by dmiles

A black screen can be caused by video card problem or memory not seated or bad

Check the memory to see if seated properly in slots,reinstall if necessary

Uninstall the video card try another one and see if it works,or try reseating the video card

Take the NIC card out and try booting the system

Make sure that you have the BIOS configuration setup properly by referencing the manual

by ron

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This is telling you that it cant boot from the CD. 99% of the time its either
a: the CD doesnt conform to the El-Totiro Specifications.
b: the CD-Reader doesnt.

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The Windows 98 issues sounds like a hosed partition. Fdisking and/or reformatting it would probably fix it.

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This sounds again like a problem with the CD-Reader. If you've been into the CMOS, it's possible you've accidently changed the boot-drive order and dont have the CD-Reader set first.
If the Reader is bad, that would fit the symptoms.

the fact that booting from the win98 or XP or noCD gives the same results tells me that your CD is being ignored..

Ron Velotta

by phdj2000

Cheers,
Somehow the hard drive had got to number two in the boot order. Possibly because it crashed out when it was loading windows the first time.
Still only works with 98 though. Still getting "No Emulation" when trying to boot from xp cd.

Phil.

by rcom

From what I gather, you ran fdisk. The message to "Press any key to reboot" wasn't an error and is normal when fdisk is complete.

If after rebooting and the message was there again, it should've be preceeded by the error that caused this prompt to appear. Is this the entire error? Should say something like "no operating system found press any ......."

When you booted to the windows 98 CD did you also format the drive, or just set up the partition (fdisk)? The drive needs to be formattedbefore the operating system can be installed.

Try using a win98 boot disk and run fdisk and format from the floppy drive.

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