Kevin,
You didn't give us much in the way of specifics.  However, some hard drives
need to have their parameters entered manually into the BIOS.  I ran across
this when I dropped an 80G into my old Asus/Athlon system.  If the BIOS sees
the hard drive, have you done an FDISK and FORMAT on the drive?  The system
may not boot from the floppy because the system BIOS isn't set for that
option.  Look in the motherboard manual on how to set the Boot Priority
options.
HTH,
Ron Jobe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 2:11 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] failed boot-up


I recently built a new computer but everytime I turn it on, it searches for
boot information, but it never finds any.  I made a system disk and put it
in the floppy, but it doesn't detect it for some reason.  Everthing is
working properly, the dvd is on, the floppy is on, the hard drive is
working, so i'm not sure what the problem is.  Also, before it searches for
the boot info, it says "detecting"[then a little time passes] and then it
says that my bios is not installed becasue there are no devices attached to
it.  I'm not sure what that means and if that is part of the problem.Get
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