Ok..why is my system doing this?

[DukeN]

When it boots up, it just goes straight to a screen saying "improper boot device, or select proper media and press any key" (asking for a boot disk in my floppy drive).

What's weird is I have a hard drive already installed.

Whats really weird is once I reboot it ctrl+alt+del, it boots from my HD just fine.

I tried changing the BIOS settings, and choosing the HD as the first boot device and it works fine. Until I shut the power off and then restart. It resets to the original default of having the floppy first, and keeps asking for a boot disk/device. Again, restarting *WITHOUT ANY BIOS CHANGES* works fine. (Tho I don't see why I should have to change boot sequence).

Me think its a defective floppy drive. Thought it'd be the battery but it's a brand new intel D845PEBT2 board, and besides if the battery was screwed it would'nt boot up properly after the reboot, no?

Would really appreciate any help/info as to whats going on and any possible solutions.

Thanks a ton in advance.

Cheers
PB

 

[lobadobadingdong]

a cold boot would yeild that and a warm boot would fix if the battery is dead on some boards, but its not likely in your case, I'd remove the ribbon and power cables from everything but your hard drive, and test, if it works fine, then (1at a time) add your floppy drive, cd-rom, dvd, etc. until the problem returns, then you know what's causing the issue.