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davecb · 01-18-2001, 11:55 AM

Hey all...

I've been building a new system from scratch to replace my old, clunky, noisy, crappy, slow (I could go on) system. Before I get to my problem, here's the hardware inside-

Abit BE6-II V2.0 Motherboard
Pentium III 800mhz (100mhz bus)
256 mb pc100 sdram
Elsa Gladiac 32mb Video Card
HP 9150i CD-RW Drive
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 45gb Ultra-DMA 100 HD
3.5 inch Mitsumi Floppy Drive

So I have everything installed properly (I think) and the system seems to find it all and boot as it should. Where I'm running into trouble is I can't get it to boot from the boot disk floppy for my Win 98 S.E. full version. My first thought was the BIOS but I checked that and it has Floppy as first boot device and the HD as second.

The first time I tried and failed, the floppy light never turned off after I started the machine and it gave me: "BOOT DISK FAILURE, PLEASE INSERT A DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

So I opened it back up, turned the floppy cable over (the end going into the drive) and tried again. This time it seemed to read the floppy but then said: "Disk I/O Error"

Does anybody know what's going on here?

01-18-2001, 11:55 AM	#1
davecb Member (5 bit) Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Woodland Hills, CA Posts: 19	Hey all... I've been building a new system from scratch to replace my old, clunky, noisy, crappy, slow (I could go on) system. Before I get to my problem, here's the hardware inside- Abit BE6-II V2.0 Motherboard Pentium III 800mhz (100mhz bus) 256 mb pc100 sdram Elsa Gladiac 32mb Video Card HP 9150i CD-RW Drive IBM Deskstar 75GXP 45gb Ultra-DMA 100 HD 3.5 inch Mitsumi Floppy Drive So I have everything installed properly (I think) and the system seems to find it all and boot as it should. Where I'm running into trouble is I can't get it to boot from the boot disk floppy for my Win 98 S.E. full version. My first thought was the BIOS but I checked that and it has Floppy as first boot device and the HD as second. The first time I tried and failed, the floppy light never turned off after I started the machine and it gave me: "BOOT DISK FAILURE, PLEASE INSERT A DISK AND PRESS ENTER" So I opened it back up, turned the floppy cable over (the end going into the drive) and tried again. This time it seemed to read the floppy but then said: "Disk I/O Error" Does anybody know what's going on here?