Author Topic: Stupid error, help! (Read 325 times)

Octavius · « **on:** February 19, 2003, 01:14:20 PM »

I'm currently scrapping together a computer for a brother of mine. I'm using an old AOpen AX6BC motherboard from 1999 (ancient, lol) with a Celeron 400 CPU, 128mb sdram. It got the job done for me before I bought newer/faster stuff a year or two ago. He'll be using it mostly for a decent internet connection and word processing... no fancy gaming or the like. It'll be a decent computer, but there's one problem:

When I try to install an OS, I go to the CMOS and tell it to boot from CD... it gives me an error saying "Bootable CD does not exist..." I know damn well there's one in there

Why won't it boot? I've tried this with XP, Win98, and Win95 installation CDs.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Furious · « **Reply #1 on:** February 19, 2003, 01:17:40 PM »

do you have you ide chain set up correctly. master/slave?

blackfalcon4 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 19, 2003, 01:19:39 PM »

Boot from floppy w/cd drivers, and just run oemsetup from win** directory.

Octavius · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2003, 01:21:57 PM »

cc Furious, I'm positive hardware is set up correctly.

Blackfalcon... no floppy extra floppy drives sitting around. I'll pick one up in a little bit.

JimBear · « **Reply #4 on:** February 19, 2003, 01:34:18 PM »

had that problem the other day, reset the cmos and it behaved properly afterwards

Octavius · « **Reply #5 on:** February 19, 2003, 05:59:59 PM »

edited: nevermind, I got it all figured out

thx!

maddog · « **Reply #6 on:** February 20, 2003, 07:50:59 PM »

Give us a hint..... what was it?