PC won't boot without disk.
Bluephoria2
Silver Spring, Maryland
My Setup
AMD X2 4600+
2GB ram
74gb WD Raptor
320gb Seagate
160gb Hitachi
NEC 16x dvd/rw
plextor 8x dvd/rw
nVidia 7600GT
Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe
Vista Ultimate
I had a problem similar to this about two months ago. One day my pc suddenly decided to stop booting up. It would post normally, but once it came time to load the OS it would display the "system boot failure -- insert system disk and press any key to continue". I was pretty blown at first, and I tried booting from the vista cd to try and repair windows. Well when it came up I wasn't paying attention and forgot to "press any key to boot from disk" and it went and booted to windows instead. So it would boot to windows off of the hdd while the vista disk was in the dvd drive, but refused to without it.
I kept snooping around the bios, and found out that somehow the hdd order was changed under boot device priority so that it was trying to boot off the hitachi. I wasn't sure why this was happening, but I changed it back and it worked fine.
So then a month passed, and the motherboard started going bad (onboard lan went, locked up constantly) so I bought a new board (same model) and installed it and it worked fine, except the same problem is occurring now with the boot sequence. I double checked and all of the orders are correct, but I have no idea where to go from here. I checked and the drives are fine.
Thanks for the help, sorry its so long I wanted to be thorough.
AMD X2 4600+
2GB ram
74gb WD Raptor
320gb Seagate
160gb Hitachi
NEC 16x dvd/rw
plextor 8x dvd/rw
nVidia 7600GT
Asus M2N-SLi Deluxe
Vista Ultimate
I had a problem similar to this about two months ago. One day my pc suddenly decided to stop booting up. It would post normally, but once it came time to load the OS it would display the "system boot failure -- insert system disk and press any key to continue". I was pretty blown at first, and I tried booting from the vista cd to try and repair windows. Well when it came up I wasn't paying attention and forgot to "press any key to boot from disk" and it went and booted to windows instead. So it would boot to windows off of the hdd while the vista disk was in the dvd drive, but refused to without it.
I kept snooping around the bios, and found out that somehow the hdd order was changed under boot device priority so that it was trying to boot off the hitachi. I wasn't sure why this was happening, but I changed it back and it worked fine.
So then a month passed, and the motherboard started going bad (onboard lan went, locked up constantly) so I bought a new board (same model) and installed it and it worked fine, except the same problem is occurring now with the boot sequence. I double checked and all of the orders are correct, but I have no idea where to go from here. I checked and the drives are fine.
Thanks for the help, sorry its so long I wanted to be thorough.
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http://www.wdc.com/en/library/sata/2079-001042.pdf
To be honest after reading that I don't know where I would move the jumper to if I were to move it. I will try using the FIXMBR command and see if you guys have any ideas for the jumper.
Thanks.
Thanks for the time though.