If you boot from floppy it depends on what OS stuff is on the floppy to whether you should have access to the CDrom drive.... the Win98se startup floppy gives you the option to start with CDrom support for instance. It has drivers on the floppy that allow the CDrom to be used. It wont however recognise an NTFS hdd partition.
Ok, I need to give this a break and walk away from it
for alittle.
Oh with the bootable floppy w/cd support this i what it said
"f**k-you" Remove disk or other media Press any key to restart"
So,I did and unplug her for now.
I'll start again maybe this weekend, but for now she won
this battle.
But the war is far from over.
I'm not giving up just regrouping than I'm kicking her where
the chips don't shine.
She will boot by the end of this war.
Ok being on worker comp I found time on my hands
so it's time for this to get slapped around again.
I took her and put her on the desk and put the battery
back on the MB. ( I took it out when I put her down I
wanted her all the way down)
Started to put her together again, other thing different is
I added another stick of ram.
Well couldn't get get her to take an OS.
A friend was here (when I started to pull my hair out) and
said " What's wrong?" so I told her.
Well what she said (when I went to the living room) boils down
too "why don't you clone the HD in SM31 and put into it?)
Well, after a bit more of knocking my head into a wall.
I figure what the heck.
You know it worked there was a lot of add new hardware,
but it worked.
Than I took the MB cd and loaded the drivers and redid the bios
and it's working.
It's still have a couple tics but I think they can be worked out
there's nothing I can't live with, But will have to be fix at
another point.
So she's can surf,do videos,music,scan for viruses, defrag,
backup and took her to pc pitstop and all was good and better
in most areas.
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The HW Guys and Girls can sort the wheat from the chaffe
If your ram is in two sticks have you installed in 1 & 3 (blue slots) or 2 & 4 (black slots) or next to each other ie 1 & 2 (1 blue, 1 black)
Can you try to boot with maybe an older version of windows cd with a boot floppy disk which has the cd rom drivers on it. (Like they had with win98)
I wasn't sure if your windows cd was a full one or an upgrade - this might make a difference.
I also noticed in your bios readout
plug and play o/s [no] should this be yes - windows is p&p
allocate irq to pci vga [yes] if your graphic card is AGP - should this be no
my little gray cells are getting a bit old now - but maybe - just maybe they have helped to jog some of the younger ones little gray cells
It's not a DVD disk in a CD drive is it? :-)
for alittle.
Oh with the bootable floppy w/cd support this i what it said
"f**k-you" Remove disk or other media Press any key to restart"
So,I did and unplug her for now.
I'll start again maybe this weekend, but for now she won
this battle.
But the war is far from over.
I'm not giving up just regrouping than I'm kicking her where
the chips don't shine.
She will boot by the end of this war.
so it's time for this to get slapped around again.
I took her and put her on the desk and put the battery
back on the MB. ( I took it out when I put her down I
wanted her all the way down)
Started to put her together again, other thing different is
I added another stick of ram.
Well couldn't get get her to take an OS.
A friend was here (when I started to pull my hair out) and
said " What's wrong?" so I told her.
Well what she said (when I went to the living room) boils down
too "why don't you clone the HD in SM31 and put into it?)
Well, after a bit more of knocking my head into a wall.
I figure what the heck.
You know it worked there was a lot of add new hardware,
but it worked.
Than I took the MB cd and loaded the drivers and redid the bios
and it's working.
It's still have a couple tics but I think they can be worked out
there's nothing I can't live with, But will have to be fix at
another point.
So she's can surf,do videos,music,scan for viruses, defrag,
backup and took her to pc pitstop and all was good and better
in most areas.