System won't boot to MS-DOS floppy.

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Al Brumski

Here's a strange problem...

My system (C2D, windows xp sp2) all of a sudden will not boot to an
MS-DOS floppy.

I've tried several MS-DOS boot floppies, they work in different
machines, etc..

Replaced the floppy drive and cable, created a bootable MS-DOS cd,
loaded system files to a flash disk, still nothing.

In all cases, ms-dos begins to load, then halts with a small
horizontal cursor blinking on the display.

Doesn't make any difference whether from the floppy, cd, or flash
disk..

Flashed BIOS back to previous version, no help. Flashed back to
current version, still the same.

Otherwise system runs fine.

I'm trying to run a dos utility that reads and flashes my video card's
bios. That's when I ran across this problem. Wasn't there a few weeks
ago..

I'm lost, any suggestions would be appreciated...

Regards,

Al
 
Al Brumski said:
Here's a strange problem...

My system (C2D, windows xp sp2) all of a sudden will not boot to an
MS-DOS floppy.

I've tried several MS-DOS boot floppies, they work in different
machines, etc..

Replaced the floppy drive and cable, created a bootable MS-DOS cd,
loaded system files to a flash disk, still nothing.

In all cases, ms-dos begins to load, then halts with a small
horizontal cursor blinking on the display.

Doesn't make any difference whether from the floppy, cd, or flash
disk..

Flashed BIOS back to previous version, no help. Flashed back to
current version, still the same.

Otherwise system runs fine.

I'm trying to run a dos utility that reads and flashes my video card's
bios. That's when I ran across this problem. Wasn't there a few weeks
ago..

I'm lost, any suggestions would be appreciated...

Regards,

Al
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Try a different boot disk, e.g. one from www.bootdisk.com.
Since your problem is obviously unrelated to Windows XP,
you might get more suggestions if you posted your question
in a hardware or Win9x newsgroup.
 
Al said:
Here's a strange problem...

My system (C2D, windows xp sp2) all of a sudden will not boot to an
MS-DOS floppy.

I've tried several MS-DOS boot floppies, they work in different
machines, etc..

Replaced the floppy drive and cable, created a bootable MS-DOS cd,
loaded system files to a flash disk, still nothing.

In all cases, ms-dos begins to load, then halts with a small
horizontal cursor blinking on the display.

Doesn't make any difference whether from the floppy, cd, or flash
disk..

Flashed BIOS back to previous version, no help. Flashed back to
current version, still the same.

Otherwise system runs fine.

I'm trying to run a dos utility that reads and flashes my video card's
bios. That's when I ran across this problem. Wasn't there a few weeks
ago..

I'm lost, any suggestions would be appreciated...

Regards,

Al
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Doesn't make sense if the BIOS can be flashed from a bootable floppy.
Where did the boot files come for flashing the BIOS? Why not use the
same source for flashing the video card?
 
Al Brumski said:
Here's a strange problem...

My system (C2D, windows xp sp2) all of a sudden will not boot to an
MS-DOS floppy.

I've tried several MS-DOS boot floppies, they work in different
machines, etc..

Replaced the floppy drive and cable, created a bootable MS-DOS cd,
loaded system files to a flash disk, still nothing.

In all cases, ms-dos begins to load, then halts with a small
horizontal cursor blinking on the display.

Doesn't make any difference whether from the floppy, cd, or flash
disk..

Flashed BIOS back to previous version, no help. Flashed back to
current version, still the same.

Otherwise system runs fine.

I'm trying to run a dos utility that reads and flashes my video card's
bios. That's when I ran across this problem. Wasn't there a few weeks
ago..

I'm lost, any suggestions would be appreciated...

Regards,

Al
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Sounds like one of the 3 boot files for msdos is botched, and, you used the
same source to make the bootable media to me.
 
Al said:
Here's a strange problem...

My system (C2D, windows xp sp2) all of a sudden will not boot to an
MS-DOS floppy.

I've tried several MS-DOS boot floppies, they work in different
machines, etc..

Replaced the floppy drive and cable, created a bootable MS-DOS cd,
loaded system files to a flash disk, still nothing.

In all cases, ms-dos begins to load, then halts with a small
horizontal cursor blinking on the display.

Doesn't make any difference whether from the floppy, cd, or flash
disk..

Flashed BIOS back to previous version, no help. Flashed back to
current version, still the same.

Otherwise system runs fine.

I'm trying to run a dos utility that reads and flashes my video card's
bios. That's when I ran across this problem. Wasn't there a few weeks
ago..

I'm lost, any suggestions would be appreciated...

Regards,

Al
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That should work. HOW are you creating the bootable floppy? Be very
specific, and go step by step, detaililng everything. Something simple is
stopping you.

When that small cursor appears on the display, exactly where is it? It it's
on the far left side, that's your DOS cursor. Did you try doing a DIR or
presseing REturn, anything, to see if it worked? YOu'll only get the
familiar C:\ prompt when the prompt has been set to $p$g in the environment.
Otherwise it's just the small cursor.

Pop`
 
No, that's a software program provided by the motherboard maker website. It
works exclusively in windows.

There are motherboards that can update from nonboot media with bios update
on the floppy. That occurs when entering the bios and instructing it to do
so.
 
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