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> Good morning all. I have a P11 333, 128 MB RAM, Abit BH6, running
WinME
> that I built and been running for a long time. I bought a 40 GB HD and
it
> wouldn't get recognized, so flashed my bios w/out error message and 40
GB
> recognized. However, couldn't get computer now to boot to bootdisk.
Pulled
> it and replaced 6 GB HD, reset bios to recognize, and it wouldn't boot
to
> bootdisk. Replaced floppy, same. Floppy will read and write ok, so
assume
> all is well there. Without boot disk can't reflash old bios to see if
that
> screwed me up, so I'm up a creek, outside of running out and getting
new MB.
> Any help?
Hi,
Flashing your BIOS ususally clears your CMOS settings too - have you
checked your settings for which device will be used to boot from? By
Default, a lot of BIOSes will only boot from the Floppy Drive if the
Hard Disk fails for some reason. Check under 'ADVANCED CMOS SETUP', or
'BOOT DEVICES', depending on your BIOS Type, to be sure that the Floppy
Drive is first in your boot sequence.
Also, if that doesn't help, you could try booting the machine from a
boot disk with no HDD attached to the IDE Bus, to see if that lets you
boot.
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