Boot problems.

[Sparkles]

I have an older compaq (hey, it was my first PC) and I can get it to power up, but it also tells me I have a system disk I need to take out and press aby key, like as if I had a floppy in the A drive, which I don't.

I disconnected the floppy to see if it was busted and no dif, it says the same thing.

All cables seem to be connected fine as well.

It's an AMD K6 400, with 96 megs of ram, lousy SiS onboard video, and a 20 gig HD.

It worked fine until the other day.

Thanks.

 

[mwars]

Sounds like the hard drive is toast. You could try the ole Fdisk, and reformat.

 

[gosstech]

Yea it sounds like you are having hard drive issues. Does the BIOS detect your hard drive.
Also try using the utilty disk that came with your HD to see if that works. You may have to install ez-bios (on the utility disk) to get you BIOS to see the HD.

Also make sure your cable connections are correct and check your jumpers on the HD to make sure its set to master.