Re: boot error message

Adrian

Have you recently accessed the BIOS and made changes whether intentional
or accidental? What is the Boot Sequence?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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hi all, im after a little guidence with an error message im getting
while booting up.

the message is "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press
enter" the wierd thing is that if i insert the xp disk and just have
that
sitting in the drive and not boot from it, the machine boots
normally. ive tried checking the disk and defragging it and all
appears
normal. thanks
adrian arnold

Remove the floppy disk from your floppy disk drive.


my pc dosent have a floppy, i shouldve mentioned that before.

something else i have just remembered is that all drives are sata ii

from memory bios config in terms of loading is as follows

removable
cdrom - bumped up the list after this error started
HD

thanks


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