Can't Boot/Load from Floppy or CD

Albatron 856PE Pro, P4-2.4 GHz (533); 1 GB DDR 333; ATI AIW Radeon 7500; WD 80 GB w/8 mb.

This is a replacement board. I loaded XP Pro prior to shipping the old board back. The loaded XP appears to boot and run just fine. I just loaded Service Pack 1A from the CD ROM w/o incident.

The problem was that I was planning to make this a dual boot. It will not boot from the floppy. It recognizes the drive and the disk. It begins the process, finds the CD ROM, but will not load the command.com It just shuts down the computer.

So maybe it's an omen not to use W98SE any more. I go to reload XP Pro from CD. It gets as far as loading the Executive Files. Then it, too, shuts down the computer. CDRW and DVD, same diff. Tried backup disk, too!

The Windows 98SE CD will get to the A:\ prompt.

I tried every combination of floppy, cable, and startup disk. I tired replacements of each and tried each in another computer. Double, double check each works in another computer. But not in the Albatron!

Any ideas?

 

I'm sheeping back in. Seating the processor heatsink aids greatly in the running of a computer!

 

It could be a few things first make sure that anything connected to the board is compatible, and also make sure you don't have bad memory. Try disconnecting every thing ecept the drives and if you can alternate memory try that.