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  1. pirateike

    New hardware, same HDD, won't boot from floopy

    The floppy drive works, so does CDROM, but they don't with this motherboard in the sense that I can't boot from any removable media. But the strange thing is that they show up as what they are supposed to be and everything. I am going to RMA it probably. =(
  2. pirateike

    New hardware, same HDD, won't boot from floopy

    By the way, anyone please feel free to AIM me at "tesko ike" if you want. It might be more efficient.
  3. pirateike

    New hardware, same HDD, won't boot from floopy

    So you are saying I should just try to boot from a floppy without the hdd in?
  4. pirateike

    New hardware, same HDD, won't boot from floopy

    Victor: FDD seek was enabled on startup, of course. Hw45: I'm pretty sure I'm not using ntfs, but fat32 because I installed xp on top of 98. Frank: I am not going to do that, because the bios is just fine, because the motherboard is brand new. Rela: The boot order is fine, with the floppy...
  5. pirateike

    Random reboots

    If your motherboard has a feature that automatically shuts down your computer if your cpu gets too hot, (and I am betting it does based on your hardware, it must be a newer board) then that could be the problem. make sure you have good cooling and explore your bios or read your board's user...
  6. pirateike

    New hardware, same HDD, won't boot from floopy

    I had a POS system that eventually quit on me because it was so old. I was running a 60GB hd with 50GB XP partition, and a 10GB Linux partition. I bought all new hardware besides CDROM, hdd and floppy. I can't boot, which I expected with xp, but I can't even get into my Linux partition (Red Hat...

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