New system wont boot from cd rom

sychnant

sychnant

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I have just finished building my system, it boots into Bios
I have set the boot sequence as 1st Pioneer DV RW (which is IDE and i have tried moving the jumper from master to cable select)and then 2nd the Sata HD. But although it recognises the cd rom ( its name apperas on the screen in green writing) :-( I have tried setting the floppy as 1st boot with a win 98 start up disk in but it still just keeps giving me the "Disk boot failure" screen.. I must be doing something stupid or i have a cable in wrong..Any advice?
Ps Tried swapping cdrom . it immediattly recognised the hitachi but still no boot...also i am using ps2 keyboard and mouse... But why wont it even boot to the flopppy????
Edit.... It will boot from A-Bits own CD rom and asks if i want to make a driver disk. But i am not running raid so do i need one?
also its now loading vista but it wouldnt load XP.. weird? I have tried a different copy of XP and it seems to be accepting that now..

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The question was why wont my system boot from the cd rom or floppy.
So far i have been able to deduce that the 3 copies of win xp ( taken from my original which i couldnt find) would not boot..I then tried the A-bit MB disk and it did boot from it. I then tried a copy of vista that i am going to upgrade to and it recognised that. So i finally found another copy of XP and it booted from that and is formatting the HD at the moment.
However i still cant understand why if the floppy was set as 1st boot in the bios and i had a bootable floppy (win 98 startup) in the drive. so thats where i am at the moment.. keeping my fingers crossed... thanks for asking..:-)))
 
I guess it may not be recognising the floppy disk. Once you get up and going with the OS, see if you can access the floppy disk.

z
 
Sometimes one has to think outside of the box (even though it may be a small box!).... :)

Let us know how you get on.

z
 
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