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?? Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://freepctech.com/pcbuild.shtml