Lee Hedley,
Insert your operating system on cd (win98 or higher)
then go through the boot process. Hopefully Your system
should boot from the CD. As it sounds as you simply have an invalid
bootdisk.
regards
Daniel
Pacpacific Australia. - The Wholesale PC and Peripheral Company


>From: Lee Hedley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
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>Subject: [PCBUILD] Boot failure
>Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:22:49 -0500
>
>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??
>
>Thanks
>Lee Hedley
>
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