>The next step would be to troubleshoot the power supply, RAM chips,
>your controller and whatever devices give the error messages that
>should show on your screen just ahead of the message that referrs you
>back to your CMOS settings. If a boot disk gives you a good A:\, then
>you have a place to start. If not make sure the proper floppy drive is
>specified in CMOS, check your controller and make sure that all ribbon
>cables and power leads are properly connected.
Alos make sure that the BIOS boots from the correct drive.
I always boot on E which is the same as the third drive, if there aren't a
third drive I boot on the second and then the first (and then the floppy).
This makes it easy for me to choose OS (DOS/W95) with two changes in the
BIOS (what harddrives are present).
Removing floppy boot from the setup should make the bootup somewhat faster,
but you need to change it before running from a floppy. No need to remove a
non-bootable floppy that was inserted by misstake either if you turn the
option off.
You could try to boot from the other harddrive and see if there are any
problems then.
Try it first without one drive, change them and then with them both (if you
succeeded with the others of course.)
>Also, you may not be getting something set right in CMOS, especially in
>regard to the RAM or the HardDrive settings. Harddrive settings can be
>pretty cryptic and I don't think that the automatic find was added to
>CMOS setup until after 286. And I saw a CMOS that defaulted to 720
>floppy drive setting and wouldn't recognize the 144 that was installed.
I believe most AMI BIOSes do so, or even changing to a 5.25" drive and
would assume most BIOSes are equal.
//Bernie
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