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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: Octavius on February 19, 2003, 01:14:20 PM

Title: Stupid error, help!
Post by: 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.

Title: Stupid error, help!
Post by: Furious on February 19, 2003, 01:17:40 PM

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

Title: Stupid error, help!
Post by: blackfalcon4 on February 19, 2003, 01:19:39 PM

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

Title: Stupid error, help!
Post by: Octavius 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.

Title: Stupid error, help!
Post by: JimBear on February 19, 2003, 01:34:18 PM

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

Title: Stupid error, help!
Post by: Octavius on February 19, 2003, 05:59:59 PM

edited:  nevermind, I got it all figured out :)  thx!

Title: Stupid error, help!
Post by: maddog on February 20, 2003, 07:50:59 PM

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