help about booting!

[quickcat]

help!!
when trying boot an old machine:
the machine halted after testing hardwares and showing "Starting MS-DOS" when booted from dos floppy disk or dos hard disk.
when trying booted from windows floppy disk, nothing happened after all the hardware test.
Thanks!

 

[Nick Stone]

Go to bios, check boot sequence. try a, c, scusi.
Is hard drive correctly recognized in bios? Look at drive info in Bios and see if it's correct. That goes for 2nd hard drives if any. Is hard drive jumpered correctly? Master for single drive, etc.?