ms6389 mobo

[slyedog]

have a ms 6389 mobo with a 1.2 athlon cpu running win xp pro intergrated sound and video. been running
rock stable for one month. decided to format the hard drive as i wanted to put w2k pro on it.formatted it
and put cdrom driver in and now it wont post and i cannot get into bios. if i leave the hdd connected
it says i have a non system disk. if i disconnect the hdd, all i get is a blinking courser at the left
hand top of screen. if i put a system disk in the floppy drive it will take me to a A: prompt. took mobo
out of case to make sure it was not shorted out. does same thing. if i put a disk in the cdrom and
type DIR, it reads the files. never seen this before. any help appreciated...slyedog

 

[mechBgon]

So at this point, if you start the system from a stop, can you press the Del key and enter the BIOS?

 

[slyedog]

no, hitting the delete key doesnot do anything

 

[slyedog]

no, hitting the delete key doesnot do anything

 

[slyedog]

ooops! sorry abt that

 

[mechBgon]

How is it reaching the A:\ prompt or the CD-ROM directory if it doesn't POST?

 

[slyedog]

by using a floppy boot disk, i can get the a:\ prompt. then i put a cd in the cdrom and type e:\dir and
it reads the files on cd. i also can read the files on the boot disk. but it will not post so i can hit delete
and get into bios.

 

[mechBgon]

Freaky! :Q So if you try to POST with no bootable floppy or bootable CD in the drives, what happens, exactly? Does the screen just stay blank? I wonder if it's attempting to recover from a corrupted BIOS.

*goes to download manual*

 

[mechBgon]

I am unable to find a manual to download from MSI for that board, it doesn't seem to exist on their site whatsoever. About all I can think to try is perhaps reset the CMOS, and replace the CMOS battery if clearing the CMOS isn't helping. Sorry

 

[slyedog]

thanks for showing so much interest in my troubles. i am reformatting the drive again????????
tried the cmos but to no avail. this is a strange one. thanks again

 

[slyedog]

formatted again and copied win98 to hdd and typed setup and win 98 loaded. put win xp pro in and it
is loading xp pro. but it will not be a clean install??????
still doesnot post and still cannot get into bios

 

[slyedog]

finally got into bios and found quiet boot had gotten enabled. disabled it and now works fine