Help, Trying to load drivers.....
#1
Hi Peeps,
Just put my new system together and i cant seem to load the drivers from the floppy, keeps wanting to load from cd???
Ive got windows95, 98se & me!! just dont wana know, been into cmos to see if its enabled..... no probs.
Any of you Pc gurus can help.......... please .
Thanks in advance
Jonno.
Just put my new system together and i cant seem to load the drivers from the floppy, keeps wanting to load from cd???
Ive got windows95, 98se & me!! just dont wana know, been into cmos to see if its enabled..... no probs.
Any of you Pc gurus can help.......... please .
Thanks in advance
Jonno.
#2
If you're getting to the point where you can specify drivers and tell it where to look, it's looking for a .inf file - probably in a sub-directory somewhere on the floppy. Search for *.inf on the floppy and pick the one appropriate for your operating system.
e.g. you might find thingy_98.inf or thingy_me.inf - get the idea?
What is the hardware you're adding anyway?
e.g. you might find thingy_98.inf or thingy_me.inf - get the idea?
What is the hardware you're adding anyway?
#3
Hi Father Jack,
Ive got the following
1600 Athlon,
40 gig hdd,
256 ram
Nvida graph card
Sb live
Sorry but i dont quite understand (new to all this) your lingo........
Ive Put this little lot together and just powered it up, put in the floppy and get this .........
disc boot failure, insert system disc and press enter.....
boot from atapi cd- rom : failure insert system disc and press enter
Put the atapi cd-rom and it says.....
1.boot from atapi cd-rom: failure
disc boot failure insert system disc and press enter
Not that iam helping as i aint got a clue (still scrathing my Head LOL.
Thanks Jonno.
Ive got the following
1600 Athlon,
40 gig hdd,
256 ram
Nvida graph card
Sb live
Sorry but i dont quite understand (new to all this) your lingo........
Ive Put this little lot together and just powered it up, put in the floppy and get this .........
disc boot failure, insert system disc and press enter.....
boot from atapi cd- rom : failure insert system disc and press enter
Put the atapi cd-rom and it says.....
1.boot from atapi cd-rom: failure
disc boot failure insert system disc and press enter
Not that iam helping as i aint got a clue (still scrathing my Head LOL.
Thanks Jonno.
#4
Ok you need to install the operating system onto the PC, If you have Windows 98 SE or Windows ME the discs should be self booting and guide you through the installation.
If you have another OS then you will need a boot disk, then FDISK/Format the drive and install from CD-Rom then.
If you have another OS then you will need a boot disk, then FDISK/Format the drive and install from CD-Rom then.
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Check your boot options in the bios.
Make sure that under the boot devices, floppy is checked first, then hard drive, then CD-ROM.
It's looking for the OS on the hard disk (as mentioned). Sounds like it is at least checking the CD-ROM for a boot device, so as long as you have your bootable OS disk in the CD drive, it should check and see you have no OS installed and start installing it.
Sorry if this is what the previous posts stated (I may have read them wrong )
Make sure that under the boot devices, floppy is checked first, then hard drive, then CD-ROM.
It's looking for the OS on the hard disk (as mentioned). Sounds like it is at least checking the CD-ROM for a boot device, so as long as you have your bootable OS disk in the CD drive, it should check and see you have no OS installed and start installing it.
Sorry if this is what the previous posts stated (I may have read them wrong )
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