Any ideas???

Sir Golitech · Dec 31, 2005

Would anybody happen to know why an XP pro disk would fail to boot?
The BIOS is set to boot from cd-rom and I know the disk works, cause it boots my system fine. It gets to the point where it says "booting from disk" and it says at that point "failure" and then reboots.

I've also tried reflashing the BIOS. Everything goes well up to the point where it's going to begin to flash and it says "source file not found" and I know it's on a freshly format(brand new)floppy.

Any ideas?
Goli

rseven · Dec 31, 2005

It is possible that the hard drive is bad.

Sir Golitech · Dec 31, 2005

Sorry forgot to mention the HDD was out of mine with Windows only on it. I can put it in my system and it boots fine.

redduc900 · Dec 31, 2005

What are the specs of the system you're working on?

Sir Golitech · Jan 1, 2006

Soyo mobo 7vba133u
Generic PC133 ram(768 total)
Antec 350W PSU
MX400 VGA
Creative 48x cdrom

redduc900 · Jan 1, 2006

Have you tried either clearing CMOS, or resetting the BIOS to Optimized Defaults or Failsafe Defaults?

Sir Golitech · Jan 2, 2006

redduc900 said:
Have you tried either clearing CMOS, or resetting the BIOS to Optimized Defaults or Failsafe Defaults?

Yes and yes.

Sir Golitech · Jan 3, 2006

Anybody?
Bueller, Bueller?

redduc900 · Jan 3, 2006

What have you done so far afa troubleshooting? Are both the CDROM and Floppy drives recognized by the BIOS? Have you checked the cables for correct orientation and/or replaced the cables? Is the CDROM jumpered correctly? Have you ruled out the drives as being bad / have you tried different drives?

Sir Golitech · Jan 3, 2006

Yes to all of the above.

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