"Perry Hoekstra" <dutchman at uswest.net> wrote: > > The box will not boot, everything I try results in PRESS KEY TO REBOOT. > I have tried to boot from floppy and bootable CD and in both cases, > the BIOS accesses the media, beeps once and responds with PRESS KEY TO > REBOOT. The mobo is a FIC and the BIOS is Award. I think this might be a variant of the `NO ROM BASIC' problem, where the system will halt on boot if a there doesn't appear to be a valid partition table on the first disk. You might have to find another hard drive with a valid partition table to put in as the primary master disk. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Friends are Friends, / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ regardless of their baud \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) rate! [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011010/75676447/attachment.pgp