can get to BIOS but no boot

[Makaze]

I am building a new system. here are the specs:

Biostar M7VKQ.PRO Ver:6.2 (AMD SiS740)
AMD ATHLON XP 2000
256MB RAM
40GB HD
Samsung CD-ROM
Samsung CS-RW

After an excruciating LONG wait, I get the option to get into BIOS...
but after that, I try to boot to load windows and this is what I get:

Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :

Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (buid 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation

SiS900 PXE BootROM v1.09 Use BEV/BBS

CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 E0 4C AA 2B E8 GUID: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF
PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received.

PXE-M0F: Existing Intel PXE ROM.
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

that's about as far as I get. I'm concerned that it is taking SO long to even boot up to BIOS or to even get to that error message. I would guess to say about 2 minutes to get to BIOS... and 4 minutes to get to error. I have tried two different boot disks. I don't get any command promts or the option to boot from disk... any help?

[John Prophet]

looks like it is trying to do the "pxe" boot thing. Go into the bios and look at the settings for onboard lan...see if it has a setting for pxe..pxe needs to be OFF. PXE means "preboot eXecution environment" and its for doing things like installing OS'es over a lan etc...but it slows things down etc cuz it is looking for an ip address from a server blah blah.

Just turn the pxe off..also set the boot order to whatever you want as far as floppy first, cdrom, ide-0 (or whatver of those you like) but then turn all the other boot stuff off....like make sure it doesnt have network boot or "try other boot devices" etc. And if you have the build all finished etc you could set it to boot of IDE-0 first, that would save a few seconds.

JP

[Makaze]

you know I'm having the hardest time finding anything about onboard lan or anything labeled pxe... I've looked through every setting in the BIOS

[Makaze]

in boot sequence I disabled "boot other device" after doing that I only got part of the error message. this is all I got:

Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :
Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :

DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

[John Prophet]

ok now you just need to put the IDE-0 in the boot sequence.

Usually for boot sequence it is

floppy
cdrom
ide-0

[Makaze]

you know what... I unplugged the CD-RW since I don't "need" it until everything is loaded. ((keep in mind I haven't even been able to install windows yet, this is a brand-spankin new system that I JUST put together)) now I'm getting only one "Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM :" and the "disk boot failure" errors

[HeadBand]

uh is the windows CD in the drive and are you sure the CD drive is a bootable CD drive (probally is if its new but it somehow might not be)

[Makaze]

I'm trying to install Win ME... I have a ME boot disk and a 98se boot disk and neither are reading. I don't even get a command prompt ... all I get is that bootable disk error. I know both these boot disks work b/c I've used them on other boxes before. I have the HD set to Master and the ribbon is installed correctly. I guess I'll double check again tomorrow evening when I have time.

[Marty Barber]

I am also having the same problem. Did you find out how to solve this?

[Bill in SD, CA]

Marty, welcome to TechIMO!!

Start a new thread and post your specs and the exact nature of the problem you are having.

Bill