"PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT??????"

[jakoub]

I've pieced together a p3 667 with an asus p3x4v and as far as I get is the "press a key to reboot" message every time I start up. Any ideas why this is happening? I have a boot disk in the floppy but it doesnt seem to be reading it. any suggestions??????

 

[Lore]

It probably doesn't sense a boot device - is your boot device sequence correct in the BIOS?

 

[jakoub]

thanx a lot! i got it working! i changed the order of the boot devices and booted from cd. it was def. my floppy. for some reason its not reading it. but thats another headache altogether!

 

[AndyHui]

Make sure that you have the floppy cable around the right way. Just about everyone puts it around the wrong way the 1st time....

 

[Ausm]

I fried a couple of floppy drives reversing the cable on them


Ausm

 

[Nater21]

I was having the exact same problem with the exact same setup. It too turned out to be my floppy. I think I just had it hooked up backwards. All works great now though.

 

[ltk007]

Yeah, I've turned around more than one floppy cable and wondered why the drives didn't work They should fix that somehow

 

[sov05]

yea it can short the floppy heh