I have an old abit kt7 with duron 800 on 128crucial ram. I built it for my cousins... and i dont know what they did to it while i wasn't looking... but i found out they erased one of the system files trying to make room for their computer... how stupid i know... i already beat him up.
Now usually i'd just put in the win2k disc (current os) and fix it... but it wont boot off dvd-cdrw combo drive.
I tried going into bios... the boot sequence was set for cdrom 1st... i even tried getting rid of hdd, but still no read. THe floppy is dead they tell me ... so its dead too.
I've tried switching to a regular old cd-rom but still no luck. I've tried using different os's to boot... still wont work. I've even tried to switch cables... and also master/slave 2nd master/slave no luck... its funny because when the os was working the cdrom's were reading fine. Just doesn't want to read the boot cd's. BOOOOO.... this sux. I think the cdrom's might be dirty or somethin... maybe i should try cleaning.
When the system starts up it recognizes both cdrom's... and puts out "boot from atapi cdrom:failure..."
please give some wisdom to this noob.
Now usually i'd just put in the win2k disc (current os) and fix it... but it wont boot off dvd-cdrw combo drive.
I tried going into bios... the boot sequence was set for cdrom 1st... i even tried getting rid of hdd, but still no read. THe floppy is dead they tell me ... so its dead too.
I've tried switching to a regular old cd-rom but still no luck. I've tried using different os's to boot... still wont work. I've even tried to switch cables... and also master/slave 2nd master/slave no luck... its funny because when the os was working the cdrom's were reading fine. Just doesn't want to read the boot cd's. BOOOOO.... this sux. I think the cdrom's might be dirty or somethin... maybe i should try cleaning.
When the system starts up it recognizes both cdrom's... and puts out "boot from atapi cdrom:failure..."
please give some wisdom to this noob.
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