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by cd014a6666

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My floppy will not work when tring to boot up after formatting hard drive nor can I boot up from cd rom. When booting from floppy it goes through the bios system recognising the hard drive ect. and then there.is nothing, it will not go to A: prompt The floppy drive cd rom drive and the boot up disc all work on another computer. Help would be appreciated.

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by techsupport

Some computers are set for quick reboot and the floppy seek is turned off. You have to go into setup and change the settings so your floppy will be recognized at reboot. Some computers say fast reboot, turn that off. some computers say floppy seek, turn that on. (Just hit delete when tne reboot asks for it, to enter setup) Good Luck, Jesse

by pinoy_teknik

It's because your first boot is your CD ROM the your Hard Drive and Drive A May be the third boot.

You can change that in the CMOS, in old CMOS its in Boot Sequence Option.

Make your the Floopy drive as a First Boot.

SYRUPHIN?

by gigelul

After power on you can see on display which key you must press to enter in BIOS setup. Find the and follow recommendations from previous answer.

by gigelul

In BIOS load default settings and try again.
Or you have a hardware problem!

by thechas

If you used the /s switch when you formated the hard drive, it is now a bootable drive.

Enter BIOS settings, and make sure that the floppy drive is set as the first boot device.

Then, you can either enable or disable the switch to try other boot devices.

If you want to boot from the CD, the CD needs to be listed prior to the hard drive.

Chas

by pinoy_teknik

Ok, a lot of answers are rejected

Check the memory, make sure it is properly seated also some card is properly inserted to the expansion card?

Hard drive should properly connected?

Now if the BIOS display,,,those you mentioned try to enter and make some changes to the setting that you know, But if you don't know some parameters in the BIOS look for the manual

by thechas

Have you checked the jumpers on the hard drive?

I have seen systems lock just after hardware detection if the hard drive was set for master instead of single.

Double check the orientation of the floppy cable too.

Chas

by cd014a6666

Ihave now solved this problem , I have bought a new motherboard. Thanks to all who submitted their suggestions.

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