Mike Hicks wrote: > "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. > > That was it! Thanks for the tip. Once I put another drive and and let the box recycle, I could boot to a floppy and resolve my problem. -- Perry Hoekstra E-Commerce Architect Talent Software Services perry.hoekstra at talentemail.com