when there hooked up it comes to boot screen and searches for pri ,sec,etc. then looks for boot disk in the floppy and then says insert boot in floppy
2006-07-27 08:53:33 · 11 answers · asked by monty 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Most likely its happening due to incorrect jumper settings on your CDROM drives.
You might have to do jumper settings on one of your CDROM's and make it slave.Which one you make slave using jumpers would depend on how you have installed your drives.
For example if you are using your Primary IDE slot cable to connect your Hard Disk and CDROM then make this CDROM slave using jumper settings on the CDROM.
If you connecting both CDROM's on the secondary IDE cable then make one of them Slave and make sure one of them is master. You would need to refer to the Jumper setting diagram on the CDROM's itself.
Instructions in detail is given on the link below.
Hope this helps.
2006-07-27 08:59:39 · answer #1 · answered by Devil M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First of all do one thing
Make you Hard disk with windows as the primary booting deivce
and after that you can have any number of disks or floppies attached to your system till it supports
the reason that you get boot screen and searches for pri, sec is because that your primary booting device is that floppy drive when you start your computer
you can reset your primary booting device from the options that are available in the BIOS
2006-07-27 15:59:47 · answer #2 · answered by akshay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The IDE cables are probably hooked up in a wierd order. If your CD drives are hooked into the "Master" ports of the IDE, then it won't boot off your hard drive (means the HD is hooked into the "Slave" port).
Thats what it sounds like to me. Make sure the port on the IDE that is on the end is plugged into the hard drive, and the ones in the middle should be plugged into the disk drives.
Also look on the back of the CD drives to the side (i think left) of the IDE port. Make sure the little plastic jumper thing in there is over the "slave" pins.
2006-07-27 15:58:31 · answer #3 · answered by travis_b7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to hook up the to cd rom drives one by one and do a process of elimination to see exactly which one of them is causing the boot problem. After you do that, the one drive that is causing the boot problem is most likely defective and needs to be replaced.
2006-07-27 15:59:02 · answer #4 · answered by black_ca_scorpio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have one (or both) drives jumpered incorrectly.
Check the jumper on your hard drive. If it's set to CS (cable select) then you'll need to set BOTH CD drives to cable select also. Otherwise, you should have one drive set as the master and the other set as slave.
If you have a Compaq computer, it uses cable select.
2006-07-27 16:04:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
make sure ur CD drive is set as a slave *check the back of the CD drive itself* and that ur BIOS boots from ur hard disk first
2006-07-27 15:56:16 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you need to change your settings in your BIOS settings, the only chance to change its settings is when you first start up your computer, it will say to press an Function key to enter its set up (for us it's F2) if you're trying to start windows normally try setting your Main Hard Drive to be the first one it checks.
2006-07-27 16:03:29 · answer #7 · answered by Gary 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like you dont have the drives jumpers set as master and slave or a bad ide cable
2006-07-27 16:55:15 · answer #8 · answered by johnman142 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the configuration about master and slave is rongh on the back of your cd-drives. They have "jumpers" little switches you have to move in order to get one drive as "master" and the other as "slave"...
2006-07-27 15:57:38 · answer #9 · answered by AlexTLC 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are you sure you are using the right cables and ide connector
2006-07-27 15:57:45 · answer #10 · answered by ian6868 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋