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 The NOSPIN Group has added a new feature on our website, web based bulletinboard for questions and answers: Visit our sister website at http://nospin.com