Check and see if your partition is active on your C: drive, check your BIOS and see if it is set to boot from A: or C: first, change it to C: and try booting from a floppy. Karl Gottshalk > I have put the motherboard, P-75 processor and original memory into another > case. I have a new 1.44 mb floppy drive attached and an old 540 meg HDD. > When the machine starts, the POST goes fine. The floppy drive is polled and > the display shows the appropriate information for this machine. However the > machine just never goes any further in the bootup process. I have tried > resetting the bios to boot from floppy and from the HDD. Neither disk is > accessed after the original polling of the drives. Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html