- Feb 7, 2004
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Pieced together a junker for my kid.
Old VIA 266 Jaton Motherboard with 1 gig of known good crucial ddr 266 and an athlonxp3000
Main use is FPS games.
Old system's motherboard went kaput.
This one I put together and installed XP. Upon reboot, It said non-system disk error and wanted me to insert a system disk.
I went into bios and changed the boot order to harddrive first and nothing else. It still wants a system disc to be inserted then press any key.
I went into the system repair console and issued the fixmbr command. It said I had a nonstandard mbr and I finished the command there. It should have fixed it. But upon reboot same thing. Now when I do the fixmbr it doesn't complain - but it reports that it happened - yet nothing changes.
So even with the cd rom turned off in the bios - it stills says there isn't a system disc. It is a 40 gig Seagate that has passed a disc check.
I swapped IDE cables. No dice. The harddrive is correctly jumpered as master. It is also recognized in the BIOS.
So what I've been doing is putting in an ubuntu disc, then selecting boot from 1st harddrive from Ubuntu's menu. Ubuntu IS NOT INSTALLED - it is not a mbr problem caused by Linux. I'm just using the disc as a 'boot loader' of sorts.
A windows xp disc will also work. When you place it in the drive just ignore it and it will then boot windows when you don't press a key. Without a boot disc - just a general system error.
Any thoughts?
Old VIA 266 Jaton Motherboard with 1 gig of known good crucial ddr 266 and an athlonxp3000
Main use is FPS games.
Old system's motherboard went kaput.
This one I put together and installed XP. Upon reboot, It said non-system disk error and wanted me to insert a system disk.
I went into bios and changed the boot order to harddrive first and nothing else. It still wants a system disc to be inserted then press any key.
I went into the system repair console and issued the fixmbr command. It said I had a nonstandard mbr and I finished the command there. It should have fixed it. But upon reboot same thing. Now when I do the fixmbr it doesn't complain - but it reports that it happened - yet nothing changes.
So even with the cd rom turned off in the bios - it stills says there isn't a system disc. It is a 40 gig Seagate that has passed a disc check.
I swapped IDE cables. No dice. The harddrive is correctly jumpered as master. It is also recognized in the BIOS.
So what I've been doing is putting in an ubuntu disc, then selecting boot from 1st harddrive from Ubuntu's menu. Ubuntu IS NOT INSTALLED - it is not a mbr problem caused by Linux. I'm just using the disc as a 'boot loader' of sorts.
A windows xp disc will also work. When you place it in the drive just ignore it and it will then boot windows when you don't press a key. Without a boot disc - just a general system error.
Any thoughts?
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