Hello

I have a problem since this morning, because yesterday my computer was
working just fine. After I push the power button the first screen(the
screen where my IDE and SATA devices are listed) took about 1-2 minutes
to appear. I could see the memory specifications (like the header of the
screen), but it took 1-2 minutes to display my HDD and my DVD-ROM. And
then, when it was supposed to start loading Windows, I got the message:
"Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter".

I thought it was my hard disk and I had one brand new, unformatted,
available, so I replaced the HDD with this new one. The error was still
the same, of course, because it had nothing on it, like I said.

I inserted a Win XP cd and I managed to install it on my new HDD. At
every restart I had to wait 1-2 minutes to see the first screen. After
installing was complete I restarted the computer (the CD no longer in,
so it had to boot from HDD) and...the same "disk boot failure" error.

I have 2 IDE ports on my motherboard, so I tried both of them, I tried
with another IDE cable, but nothing seems to work.

Any ideas, please ? I don't have another motherboard to test if that is
the problem.

I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance,

Irina


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irina2828 wrote:
of course. Then see. Might be conflict of devices. If you only
have an HD and CD put them on separate cables as master each.

Already tried that, I'm starting to think it's the mother board


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Anyway, my HDD is ATA and my DVD Writer is on S-ATA. And, like I said
last night everything was allright and this morning I started getting
the error


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irina2828 wrote:
Intermittent?
You were in there playing the the HD's and cables. Reseat everything,
memeory etc.

.... yes, you probably did that.. but maybe not.
Good luck.