Friends have an old Pentium III (if necessary, I'll sign the hardware for more). There were problems with loading and I set it in BIOS: Load optimized defaults . Default settings. It began to load normally. (More precisely, first of all I put "Load Fail-Safe Defaults", and then "Optimized ...", but this probably does not matter.)

There used to be the first boot device - CD ROM, it became Floppy. The second device is HDD. I put again First boot device: CD ROM But no! It is loaded only from the hard drive!

Question: what does he, the dog, still need? :-)

PS No physical connections have changed. Before that (i.e. resetting the settings to "default"), the first one was booting from a CD-ROM.

  • The BIOS is as follows: CMOS Setup Utility - Copyright (c) 1984-2000 Award Software - Nikolja
  • And if the flop in general nafig physically disable? - Zulan
  • I happened like this only in the case of a bad CD, or, already quite worn out drive. I heard that the drive accelerates, but there was zero sense. And after a second reboot - BACH! And it all loaded. - Amateur
  • try to disable the hard drive for checking - shaman888

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Check if the CD-ROM drive is correctly detected by the BIOS. Most likely this is the case.

If not, check to see if the boot order settings are saved. Try during POST testing press F8, F9 or F12 (depending on the motherboard, details in the manual) to open the boot sequence menu.