BOOT PROBLEM PLZ HELP

[colinjones]

ALL OF A SUDDEN MY PC WILL ONLY BOOT FROM THE CD ROM NO MATTER WHAT I CHOOSE IT TO BE IT CMOS. THE MESSAGE IS BOOT FROM ATAPI.

THIS ISNT A CRITICAL PROBLEM AS I LEAVE THE WINDOWS 2000 DISK IN AND IT BOOTS, ITS JUST A TAD ANNOYING.

I HAVE CHECKED THAT IT IS NOT CDROM DRIVE OR CABLES. I HAVE CLEARED THE BIOS. THE MOTHERBOARD MANUAL TELLS ME HOW TO FLASH THE BIOS FOR WIN98 LOT OF GOOD THAT IS.


PLZ HELP IM CONFUSED LOL.

 

[heronbrook]

I have the same problem, but with Win XP instead. I've just installed a new ASUS A7V333 motherboard and since then my machine only boots if the XP cd is present. I've tried to write new MBR's with no improvement.

 

[apex1x]

What happens if you disconnect the CDROM/Take out the CD? Will it still boot? What error messages will it give?
~Apex1x
Never become expert at something you hate. They'll make you do it for the rest of your life.

 

[gargouille]

Heronbrook:

Have you tried booting off the CD and choosing R...for repair?

 

[gargouille]

Whoa, I need to look at dates...and some folks need to come back and say "yeah, that worked" or "No luck, yet"
OR SOMETHING

 

[Guest_imported]

flashed the bios and it works fine something must have corrupted the bios virus maybe.

 

[NRGeti]

I need help setting up my PC to read a DVD Drive from DOS. My goal is to
install Windows XP in a dual-boot system.

Background:
1. I have Windows XP on a DVD CD.
2. There are three CD drives on my PC. The first is a regular CD-RW drive;
the second is the DVD reader and the third is another CD-RW.
3. I used Partition Magic to create the Primary partition for
XP.
4. To install XP I must boot my PC into DOS and read it on the DVD drive.
5. My thought was to edit the config.sys and autoexec.bat files on the
Partition Magic Boot Floppy Disk to set up the driver for the DVD. So far I have added the ASPIxxxx drivers (but I am not sure
which one is needed for DVD) to the config.sys and MSCDEX to the autoexec.bat.

When I boot from the floppy disk, the system finds the first CD drive just
fine but now how do I tell it to point to the second drive which is the DVD
I need? Is there some other way to install XP into the empty Primary
partition?

 

[heronbrook]

Updated the bios to 1013. Solved my problem.