It must depend on the BIOS, to some extent. My experience is it won't
boot if anything is configured wrong, but (subject to previous
configuration) it will tell you how to get into setup. If things are
configured as not present, but what is configured is right it will boot
if it has any bootable devices. That doesn't help, though, does it:
you would still have to get into setup. This is some drastic, but I bet
resetting the CMOS would get its attention. Some of the 486 MB's had
a jumper you could short "To clear the CMOS setup memory, if there has
been any inappropriate operation incurring the system is failure", or if
you can get at the battery, you can take it out, wait a bit, and put it
back in, and it'll have to let you in to setup, or go totally catatonic.
It _might_ undo the setting that prevents it from telling you how to get
into setup, if there _is_ a way...
Well, good luck!
Lawson
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Jim Darrough wrote:
> I appreciate the feedback, Lawson, but the motherboard will not boot
with a
> hard drive that is not properly set up. At least, that's the symptom.
Will
> advise later on success/failure.
>
> Regards, Jim
>
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