Re: [H] NTLDR is missing error & will not boot from cdrom

[jwmaki]

The SATA RAID is an Sil 3112A and the IDE is a GigaRaid ITE (not sure of the number right now). It is an nVidia based Gigabyte board, GA-7NNXP. I tried booting from an external USB drive and got the same reaction as the CDROM. It ignores the BIOS setting and tries to boot from the floppy. I have removed everything from the system, flashed the BIOS, removed the cmos battery. Always the same.

 

I am wondering now if it might be a BIOS problem. This Gigabyte mobo has the dual bios. I tried to flash the backup bios with no luck. I then tried to flash the main bios, and it seemed to work. But the system will still not boot to the cdrom. I am looking at cutting my losses and moving on -- Salvage what I can an build a new system.

 

Many thanks to all who responded and all your ideas and suggestions.

 

Jim Maki

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-------------- Original message from Wayne Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: --------------


> At 03:09 PM 4/29/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed:
> >Further strangeness -- I can boot to a floppy and then access the CDROM.
> >But I cannot get it to boot from the CD. The BIOS boot sequence seems to
> >see the two RAIDs. The SATA RAID set up says the disks are okay. I have
> >not been able to find a diagnostic for the IDE RAID.
>
> May I ask which chipsets are you using with these RAIDs ? MSFT has had
> updated drivers for various RAID chipsets via WU. Have you installed these
> updates ? Can you configure your system to boot an external dvd or cdrom
> drive ?
>
>
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> Wayne D. Johnson
> Ashland, OH, USA 44805
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