Question:
I can't even get a boot disk to boot up. I
am using a tyan 1590s board with an amd 500 and about 240megs of ram.
I have tried 3 floppy drives including a new one and 3 different boot
disks. I keep getting an error message that reads: DISK BOOT FAILURE,
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. I did that repeatedly and still it
won't boot up. Any ideas?
Answer:
I checked the bios and it is set to boot a, then c, then the cdrom. I
haven't been doing anything with the bios anyway. I made the boot disk
from another computer using windows 98. The boot disk will work on
that computer. When it is on the computer I am trying to boot up it I
can hear the floppy working but still get the error message.
Candlin appears to have ideas. I don't know what's been happening as you swapped drives multiple
times. There is something I DIMLY recall about one of the cables to the floppy. The red strip on the
data cable... God... I think it must be positioned oppositely than that of an HDD, i.e., the red is
farther from the device.
It could be visa versa. It could be it's a CD cable I'm thinking about. Sorry, I can't be more
specific. But, I'm sure someone else will remember this... Candlin?
