From what I've been able to piece together from your e-mail it sounds like
you don't have the new motherboard set up correctly. First: can you get into
the bios of the new board? If so; are the controllers set up correctly and
does the bios detect the hard drive and floppy correctly? I've downloaded
the support manual for this board (I've been thinking of getting it myself).
And there are a couple of places that you could have a problem. The boot
sequence could be set up wrong. (Not allowing a boot from floppy). The hard
disk controller may not be set to automatic for detection. I'd advise
looking at the manual for the new motherboard and taking things one step at
a time.

William Pike
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-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of jon&marie
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:08 PM

Hi im currently really stuck with a problem which has lasted over a week &
im on the verge of madness,
Ive just bought a new motherboard which is a MSI K7N2 delta with a 3.2xp cpu
and some 3200ddr (400) now my problem is i now cant get the pc to boot up to
see if its working ok because i get the error at startup  " boot disk
failure , replace boot disk and press any key" i had win xp pro on hdd
before  and it was running but since ive had case open it wont start up now
it also tells me to check cable which ive done  and ive also replaced the
cable in case of fault but it just seems like it aint finding my  hard drive
at all , I downloaded the xp boot disk so i could format through f disk
thats on your site but it tells me theres no  disk present to format ??
help?
p.s. if this mail sounds all confused to you then thats cos i am confused
lol .
Any help would be greatly appreciated thanx:).

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