>Try booting a DOS floppy if you can to see what happens. I've been using all this time Windows on this computer, and the floppy works perfectly well. Usually, I start the installation process by booting with a DOS disk, and then executing boot.bat from the cd.
>Try resetting the CMOS to the manufacturers defaults. You may also >try removing the two hard drives on your second IDE chain for the install. >You can reconnect and initialize them once your up and running. Well, now I've got four disks, but before I had only one and the CD and the results were worst, since the installation process used to stop after detecting the disks. >Assuming the FD controller is on the motherboard, you may want to >go to the manufacturer web site as see if there is a firmware update What do you mean by firmware update? Thanks very much