I have seen this problem a lot.
1) try another boot floppy disk
2) check floppy cable and connection
3) try another floppy drive (different brand)

Good luck

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Hedley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 5:22 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Boot failure


> I have just built a new PC using a Gigabyte GA 71XE4 Mobo, AMD Athlon 900
CPU, IBM 40 GB HDD and am trying to boot up for the first time. I have got
what I believe is to be a valid boot disk from the IBM website for first
time running but all I get is:
> Searching for boot record from floppy..not found
> Searching for boot record from IDE-0..not found
> Searching for boot record from CDROM..not found
>
> Boot failure
> Insert BOOT diskette in A:
> press any key when ready
>
>
> needless to say, when I press enter the drive spins up and after a couple
of seconds I get the same lines repeated.
> Any clues??

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