Booting error

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Do you actually have a floppy drive in the pc Warren?

If not you can disable it from looking for a floppy drive.

 

What happens when you press F1?

[mtwarren3]

no floppy here, have the cdrom and a dvd burner on here....i'm in the setup now....under the Drives portion it says all floppy drives a disabled... all USB floppy drives are enabled integrated floppy drive is enabled and the integrated floppy drive is enabled and anly allows reads

Or...am i in the completely wrong spot for that?

[mtwarren3]

i made sure the floppy was disabled.....and it looks like whatever it is you had me doing has helped!!! It started right up into windows and everything seems to be working fine....matter of fact it seems to be working faster than before! THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR TIME AND EFFORT!!!!!!!!!

[maynardvdm]

Good to hear you got your PC working.

 

Tell us if you need any help or advice :)

[Goku]

Glad you got it solved. As Maynard said, please ask any questions or queries if you have them. :)

 

-- Goku

[Dalo Harkin]

There is an option in the BIOS that says 'holt on' then there are loads of options -

I have mine on everything other than keyboard.

[Guest Wolfeymole]

I think this appears to be solved Dave unless I missed something? :rolleyes:

[Dalo Harkin]

I know this is an after thought that would have helped ;)

[Guest Wolfeymole]

Your right Dave no probs. :)

[mtwarren3]

Okay, so I'm back to square one again. Everything seemed to be working fine yesterday until I removed some of the useless programs that were on my pc. After a reboot, I'm back to that booting error....[ithr] from my first post. Probably should have left well enough alone????

[Goku]

Okay, so I'm back to square one again. Everything seemed to be working fine yesterday until I removed some of the useless programs that were on my pc. After a reboot, I'm back to that booting error....[ithr] from my first post. Probably should have left well enough alone????

Welcome back Warren. :)

 

Do you have any Floppy inserted in the drive? If so, then remove it and try rebooting again. Also, can you state what is the primary boot device in BIOS? That would help considerably too. Please reply as soon as possible with the results. :)

 

-- Goku

[mtwarren3]

There is no floppy on this pc....I did some poking around (in the dell forum) and found some similar issues. I've changed the battery, checked to make sure everything was seated properly, etc. After reboot, yet again, it now goes back to floppy diskette error, I went back in and changed the setup and disabled the floppy.....saved and now windows startsup. The boot sequence does the hard drive then cdrom...i think.

 

From what i got out of the other forum, apparently this diskette failure is some type of "flaw" with the Dell pcs. Other than that info that forum proves useless for a newbie like me. You "guys" have gotten me on a better track, and i've learned alot! Needless to say I greatly appreciate it. There are no reputable pc places nearby to take this thing to and dell wants an arm and a leg just to talk to you.

 

Anyway, now that I have windows up and running is there anything I should do or any other helpful hints? (aside from a hammer??:D)

[Goku]

There is no floppy on this pc....I did some poking around (in the dell forum) and found some similar issues. I've changed the battery, checked to make sure everything was seated properly, etc. After reboot, yet again, it now goes back to floppy diskette error, I went back in and changed the setup and disabled the floppy.....saved and now windows startsup. The boot sequence does the hard drive then cdrom...i think.

 

From what i got out of the other forum, apparently this diskette failure is some type of "flaw" with the Dell pcs. Other than that info that forum proves useless for a newbie like me. You "guys" have gotten me on a better track, and i've learned alot! Needless to say I greatly appreciate it. There are no reputable pc places nearby to take this thing to and dell wants an arm and a leg just to talk to you.

 

Anyway, now that I have windows up and running is there anything I should do or any other helpful hints? (aside from a hammer??:D)

Well, should the problem ever arise back again, you know what to do as the primary solution. The solution has worked for you two times which I believe is enough proof that the problem is within the BIOS itself. I can't put any input on this but perhaps Dalo might be able to guide you through a BIOS update so that you don't have to undergo through all this. Glad we could help though. :)

 

-- Goku

[Guest Wolfeymole]

As long as the floppy drive remains disabled in the bios Warren you will not receive this error message.

 

In the old days the normal boot sequence would be;

 

A: (Floppy Drive)

D: (CD Rom)

C: (Hard disk drive)

 

I have a Dell pc that does not have a floppy drive and until I disabled it in the bios would always show "floppy seek failure"

 

That old sequence wastes time when seeking an operating system to boot from and the best sequence should be;

 

C: (hard drive)

D: (cd rom)

 

The only time that scenario needs changing is when you are installing a new operating system or running repairs of various natures.

 

All change to the bios MUST be saved before exiting.

[Dalo Harkin]

Dalo might be able to guide you through a BIOS update so that you don't have to undergo through all this

 

Warren - if you need this let me know, but as posted in previous threads the BIOS is a very 'fragile' thing - if there is no major problem then we do not recommend updating the BIOS - I am glad that this problem is now sorted and as Goku said if you need help again you know where we are :D

[mtwarren3]

Again everyone....thanks so much!! I'm glad I stumbled onto this sight and at least now i know where to go for future issues!! I think I'll leave the BIOS alone for now....don't really want to tempt the fates quite yet :)