System will not boot at all

[froboy733]

I have an old system that I am trying to get running, it is using an Asus p2b-ds motherboard running an Intel Pentium 2 Cpu and I can't get it to boot from anything. It will not boot from a floppy or the CD-Rom drive or the hard drive. I have used every different bootable floppy I can find and nothing will work. I got to the point where I pulled out the Hard drive and threw it in a different computer and installed the OS that way. When I put the HD back in it still would not boot. I have gone through the BIOS many time to make sure that the appropriate boot device is selected and it always is. I know the hard drive is not dead because I installed the OS on it and that whole process went perfectly fine. Can anyone give me some help? Thanks in advance.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

If it won't even boot to a DOS prompt, you either have bad ram or a bad MB.

 

[308nato]

Are any of the capacitors on the board bulging or leaking?

 

[btcomm1]

Try resetting the cmos on the motherboard.

 

[jackschmittusa]

Installing the os on another computer is not likely to work anyway.

Are all of the drive data cables good and oriented correctly?

All of the ide drives jumpered correctly?

HD on ide0?

Cd drive on ide1?

Does the bios see the drives?