Access To Phoenix Award Bios

I am trying to access the Bios on this PC Win 98SE Pentium III 667.
It is a Phoenix Award Bios. I want to Format the drive and then install XP but I need to change the Boot sequence from Floppy first to CD Rom First so I can boot with the XP CD. Delete on start up is not working F8 is ok for Safe Mode, but I can not find a combination for the Bios
need help badly here
hawk22

 

I have found the key Ctrl+F1 but can not work out how to make it CD as my Options are set to " A, C, SCSI, but no CD Rom or Optical.
How do I go about to make that happen.
thank you
hawk22

 

thanks Steve, does that mean that I can not install XP ??
hawk22

 

Hi Pete, and thank you for that.
I have downloaded the file 4.2 mb and saved it to disk as this is not the PC that I want to use it on.
From what I read this file will install on 3 floppy disks will this then allow me to install XP Pro onto this new HD the old 98 SE on that PC is absoluteley gone.
your help is as usual much appreciated.
hawk22

 

Thanks Pete, I have just finished installing XP on the new drive and yes the 6 Floppies started the Ball rolling.
When I removed the old 14 gig drive with the corrupted 98 on it that I want to use as a slave I noticed that it has no little sketches on it for the Jumpers Master and Slave It has little squares that say Primary Master "Yes" Slave "No "
I have never seen this before and can't work out how to set to Slave or Cable select I have the new Seagate as cable select as this is recomended on the drive. Any Ideas on how to run this drive as a slave.
thanks
hawk22

 

Some drives don't list all the jumper positions on the label (some WD's don't list them at all because they were "standard" settings on all their drives).

Put the model number of the drive and "jumper" into a Google search, you should find it immediately. The drive will have it's own webpage at Seagate and will have all the information and specifications for the drive.

Maxtor's utility Maxblast has a database of the jumper settings for a lot of drives, in case you have trouble finding it on the internet.

Matt

 

Well thank you all, the job is finished the PC is running like a beaut, and I would not have done it without your help.
The XP Boot file to create the 6 Floppy's was magic I had not come across a Motherboard like that before with no Boot from CD in the Bios.
The old 14 Gig Maxtor drive was actually connected with a 80 wire cable and after searching on the Maxtor site I found a drive similar and used the same Jumper for slave as shown and it worked but there was no Jumper settings anywhere on the drive just "Primary Master On" "Slave Off ".
I then converted the drive to NTFS went all well. On the new 80 Gig I moved
"My Documents off the C drive to what endet up F and yes it asked me if I wanted to move all the Files and contents with it to the new location Yes and it was all done.
I made one stuff up and wonder if that can be changed I spelled the owners name wrong in Administrator he is my Boss at work
thanks again for a enlightning weekend.
hawk22

 

Thank you pete it worked
hawk22