WIN98SE boots ONLY with cd help 2

[davespeak]

Recently upgraded, fried motherboard, to Gigabyte brand GA-7VKMP, via KM266 chipset, 300watt ps and an AMD Athalon 2600 cpu. Original Western 10.2 HDD. Will only boot up with 98se cd in drive. Was told by selling retailer to uninstall 98SE and reinstall. Add/Remove program uninstaller says not to uninstall if HDD compressed OR if using fat32. Been there and done both. Do I really need to delete 98 (and How to) or????

 

[mpnut]

Set your boot sequence to boot to the Hard Drive before booting to the CD ROM.

 

[Jontmke]

Wht happens if the cd is not in the drive? What error do you get?

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[imquazar]

Was this hard drive the master/bootable hard drive in the old system?
If not then maybe the partition isn't set bootable/active?

-IQ

 

[davespeak]

Thanks to mpnut, jontmke, and imquazar. When I went to Bios my choices were Realtek boot, floppy, cd or disabled. I tried each seperately. Auto-detecting Primary Master-not detected. Boot failure from previous device, searching for boot record from SCSI-not found. When I get to reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media etc.. hitting ctrl/alt/del once will boot me to windows98 screen, with or without the cd being in drive.

 

[davespeak]

imquazar, this drive was the only drive in old sys. so it was master bootable(?). It is the only drive in the new sys. and I didn't move the jumper from master. I am lost with partition bootable/active.

 

[Jontmke]

Check the connections on the drive. If the bios is not finding it, obviously you can't boot off of it. Also, where is the hard drive in the equation? "When I went to Bios my choices were Realtek boot, floppy, cd or disabled" Is the Realtek a SCSI card? One of those should say HDD 0 (first hard drive).

Jon

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. (Bertrand Russell)

 

[davespeak]

I can't believe that I forgot troubleshooting 101 Jon. I assumed that the NEW cable worked and never challenged it. I will try another ribbon tomorrow and let you know. Thanks