I suspect that your PC isn't boot from floppy first, instead, it boot from
hard driver before floppy drive. you should be able to access the BIOS setup
and check it out.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "ETLehner" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 9:13 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] BIOS hanging prior to drive access


> Hello everyone,
>
> I've been an intermittent lurker for the last few years, and have recently
> re-subbed.  I've just had the following problem occur, and I hope someone
> out there may know of something I can do to solve it.
>
> My spouse, while flipping circuit breakers in our basement without
realizing
> that I was upstairs working on his computer (I'm now writing from mine),
> shut off the power to the machine while it was in the process of a Defrag.
> I have a UPS on my machine, but his only has a surge protector (he doesn't
> use it a whole lot, it's usually off), so it of course went black.
>
> Now it won't get past the line in the Award BIOS boot process
> "Verifying DMI Pool Data..."
> when trying to reboot.  It doesn't even get as far as looking for an OS,
so
> I can't try to boot to a floppy and re-flash the BIOS (if that is what
needs
> done, I am just guessing).  If I just let it sit, it doesn't do anything,
> just stalls at that line (right after it's checked for boot sector viruses
> with the on-chip checker).
>

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