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>>>Date:    Sun, 14 Aug 2005 01:35:34 -0500
From:    Venkat Viswanathan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: bios trouble

Alan Smith's post (clipped)

<<< I scroll down to  BOOT SEQUENCE and enter.
I USED TO have - -floppy, HD0, CDrom. While trying to change the order

to - -floppy, CDrom, HD0   I hit some?? key and now the startup  is

FLOPPY and I can enable/disable by hitting the space bar.>>>

Will I be correct in understanding your problem as:---

as on the date and time of your post the "BOOT SEQUENCE" window in your bios
shows only one device (floppy) and you have the ONLY option of "enable" or
"disable" .

in other words I am simply rephrasing Frank Suszka's query in his post
(clipped)

<<< Does "the startup is floppy" mean the system won't recognize anything
but
the floppy?>>>.

If I am correct then perhaps you should check whether you bios and device
manager show your hdd/cdrom and any other optical device you have.

FWIW and have a good day----Venkat Viswanathan<<<


Are you able to get into the BIOS? I have two Dells (GX 100, Dimension 8400)
and the (quick) choices at startup are;

F2 - to enter Setup
F12 - For Startup Options.

You should be able to access the BIOS (are you?) and using your keyboard
look for either boot sequence and/or drive options and see if floppy is
enabled and set as either first or second boot device and the other drives
are set to auto-detect. Usually its the 'enter' key that enables or disables
devices. I'm not really familiar with the spacebar being the choice key.

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