DISK BOOT FAILURE

[BigDave]

Here's the message I'm getting a boot up:

DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

When I press enter, it boots up just fine!! But I get this messsage every time. The BIOS is set to boot from Floppy first, then ATA100 controller. There is no floppy in the drive.

Here is the system:

ASUS A7V board
45GB IBM ATA100 Drive
AMD 1GHZ Thunderbird
512MB Crucial RAM
Video, floppy, cd rom, nic, etc...

Win2K is installed in one partition on the drive.

Does anyone know what the problem is? I'm building this for a friend, and would like to get rid of this message that comes up EVERY time you reboot.

Thanks!

- Dave

 

[NOX]

<< Win2K is installed in one partition on the drive. >>

Does that mean you have Win98 or something else on another partition?

<< The BIOS is set to boot from Floppy first, then ATA100 controller. >>

That may be your problem right there. You shouldn?t have to tell the computer to boot to ATA100 controller, the controller card should do that on its own. Try loading bios default and see what happens.

 

[BigDave]

Please disregard this message.

I found the answer by searching old posts...

Sorry, for the spam, but THANK YOU fellow Anandtechers for giving me the answer. Aparently Virus Detection has to be enabled to prevent this. Would have taken me forever to figure that out.

THANK YOU!

- Dave