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Francisco M L S G S

It Wandered In From the Wastes
When I boot I get the following error:

Searching for boot record from floppy . . . Not found. Missing NTLDR
Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

I have no idea what caused this, can somebody help me? I'm desperate...
 
Just put your harddrive on first priority boot in your BIOS.


Will cause problems if you ever have to boot from a floppy, tho'.
 
this problem is simply caused by booting with a floppy in your FDD. standard bios settings will attempt to boot from FDD first and then search for a harddrive. however, if you boot with a non-bootable floppy in your FDD-drive the PC will assume you wanted to boot with it. just pop out the floppy while booting should fix this.

if this is not your problem, check the connection of your FDD to the motherboard. if problem persists, try unplugging your FDD and boot without it (that would point to a faulty FDD).

if problem is not fixed by all this, your motherboard or your bios might be fucked.
 
SuAside said:
this problem is simply caused by booting with a floppy in your FDD. standard bios settings will attempt to boot from FDD first and then search for a harddrive. however, if you boot with a non-bootable floppy in your FDD-drive the PC will assume you wanted to boot with it. just pop out the floppy while booting should fix this.

if this is not your problem, check the connection of your FDD to the motherboard. if problem persists, try unplugging your FDD and boot without it (that would point to a faulty FDD).

if problem is not fixed by all this, your motherboard or your bios might be fucked.
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I guess that's about the long version of what I said :wink:
 
indeed it is jeebz, i just wanted to explain it in greater detail... i'm used to this kinda thing because i'm a mod at a hardwaresite ;)
 
You are? Well then. I've got some problems of my own here you might be able to help me with...

See, I just got back my PC from the shop. My motherboard & processor were fried, so I told them to just upgrade everything in the case while they were at it. Which they did.

Problem is, they didn't do any software stuff. Which was bad, since up till two days ago I knew shit about computers. Thanks to hours and hours of work, and a half-sleepless night because I couldn't shake off the frustration of not getting the damn thing to work, I've managed to just about install it all properly. Really, I've done all of it, on my bloody own, without any help - change master/slave settings, partition my HD, change my FBS speed, upgrade my BIOS, install all the drivers - which is a pretty big thing if you've never looked inside a computer case before.

However, I seem to be facing one persistent problem. With the soundcards.

I had an old - very old - sound card already in it, which they didn't upgrade, and doesn't seem to function anymore for some strange reason. Well, that doesn't bother me though, since my motherboard (VA-10) has a perfect incorporated soundcard in it - called something like AC-97 IIRC. It's the one used on my dad's PC, and there it works like a charm.

Not on my PC, though. Even with all my volume setting maxed out, and 500 W speakers at full volume I can only *faintly* hear any sound coming from the boxes. I tried everything: drivers and the works, but nothing helps. I called the shop, and they said it was prolly my Motherboard settings, and that I just had to bring my case by. I don't really feel like that, though, so perhaps you could help me!

Any ideas?
 
first off, it might be helpful if you gave me the brand & type of motherboard :) (VA10 is not a correct designation as far as i know)

and AC-97 is more the kind of codec/specifications the on board soundcard uses, not the actual chip itself. (that doesnt matter as i can look it up if you give me the info i requested above :P

PS: 500W speakers? DAAAAAAAAAMN :)
 
Good to see the topic became even more usefull than what I thought it would be.

Thank you Jebus and SuAside, I will try that, however I can only do it tuesday. Then I will tell you if it's alright or if I will need some more help.

Thanks again.
 
@Jebus: Look in the BIOS setup under integrated peripherals and check that the onboard sound card is enabled.
 
Jebus said:
I did.

It's enabled.

Otherwise I would hear no sound at all, I presume.
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Then try Start->Control Panel-> then either Sound or your own driver control panel (mine is CMI, you prbably have another one) and try the sliders.
 
Snake said:
You have a pretty decent sound card already built in, ditch your soundcard and go with that.
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Yea - I'm sorry, I wasn't quite clear in my original post. That's what I have already done, you see. I took out that old soundcard, and I'm trying to use the one on my motherboard now - but to no avail, since I can barely hear anything on it.

Briosafreak - that's the first thing I tried :D
 
are you sure you removed the original drivers of the old card you threw out?

are you sure the connectors are in the right place & the right outputs are selected (both in the VIA driver & the windows sound settings)?
 
Wait, you mean, you can BARELY hear anything? Uh, this may sound stupid, but try plugging it in to a different set of speakers, or use a different set of cords. The other possibility could be if your sound card has some sort of low-level or hardware-level volume control. I don't know how much you feel like digging around inside your box, but you could make sure that there's not a potentiometer or something lurking about on your sound card that needs tweaking. You could also uninstall and reinstall the drivers (in other words, just bang on it until it works), and see if that shakes something into place.
 
DevilsAdvocate said:
Wait, you mean, you can BARELY hear anything? Uh, this may sound stupid, but try plugging it in to a different set of speakers, or use a different set of cords.
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Tried that too. Tried with two different sets of speakers, and plugging my headphones in directly. No difference.
Well, actually, yes: I couldn't hear anything with the headphones;

The other possibility could be if your sound card has some sort of low-level or hardware-level volume control. I don't know how much you feel like digging around inside your box, but you could make sure that there's not a potentiometer or something lurking about on your sound card that needs tweaking.
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Well, that seems to be the last possibility to me too. But the problem is: how the hell does that switch look like? I mean, my motherboard-soundcard itself is so small I can barely distinguish it, so how the hell do I find that 'switch' (if any)?
 
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