help with a message at bootup!!!

[Brian3012]

Hi,

Whenever I bootup my pc, I get a message that says " Updating ESCD...success"

then it says "invalid system disk replace the disk, and then press any key"

I am using win98 SE
166 mhz

[Joint Chiefs of Staff]

Have you loaded a new program recently?

click start

run

and type

msconfig

and click on the startup tab

Uncheck any programs that you don't want to autostart upon boot. Hope this helps.

[CiscoKid]

sounds like either your drive is going out, or a bad controller. possibly a loose connection somewhere.

[ace]

make sure you do not have a floppy in your A drive...

then hit "any" key..

[CiscoKid]

Originally posted by a0c2e4
make sure you do not have a floppy in your A drive...

then hit "any" key..

Forgot to mention that one...

[Joint Chiefs of Staff]

Originally posted by a0c2e4
make sure you do not have a floppy in your A drive...

then hit "any" key..

HeHe!

*a0c2e4 points out the obvious* LOL!!!

[ace]

Originally posted by Joint Chiefs Of Staff


HeHe!

*a0c2e4 points out the obvious* LOL!!!

I had a customers the other day that said she had to rescedule her appointmant because she went to turn on the computer and it said the same thing. I asked if I could take a quick look and pointed it out to her without turning it on. I pushed it out and walla, she was happy and I finised the job in twenty minutes.

[Joint Chiefs of Staff]

Originally posted by a0c2e4


I had a customers the other day that said she had to reschedule her appointment because she went to turn on the computer and it said the same thing. I asked if I could take a quick look and pointed it out to her without turning it on. I pushed it out and walla, she was happy and I finished the job in twenty minutes.

I hope you got a minimum of a 1 hour service charge out of it.

[Brian3012]

there is no floppy disk in the pc

this message occured after I formatted my pc

I can't even prompt dos

any key I press I get the same message invalid......

[CiscoKid]

Originally posted by Brian3012
there is no floppy disk in the pc

this message occured after I formatted my pc

I can't even prompt dos

any key I press I get the same message invalid......

ok, so then there's no OS on it? that's why!

[Brian3012]

put the win98SE cd in, it still gets the same message

[Annalysa]

Check bios too.......


make use your drive is being reconginzed there

[Brian3012]

I wanna get in dos prompt but I still get the same message invalid... if I press any keys

I tried pressing del key to get in bios setup but I can't

[64bit]

Have you ever been able to boot from the FDD before? Have you recently formatted your HDD? Have you recently add a new piece of hardware video card, NIC, etc...? What brand of computer is this, the delte key doen't always get you to the bios sometimes its F2 or F12 or a combonation.

[Brian3012]

ya befI did before I formatted my hd because my floppy drive wasn't working

no new hardware in pc

Intel brand

I tried putting in a nother harddrive and I still get the same message

invalid...

[Indy]

Sounds to me like you don't have an operating system installed on your hard drive yet, hence the "invalid disk" message that you're getting...you'll have to boot off of an OS install disk, or a boot up disk with cd support so you can install windows back onto the hard drive...

[SeedOfChaos]

You should check the boot sequence in your BIOS. It could be that it is set to boot from the HDD first and the rest later, which could then give you this message and prevent you from booting off other devices, if you don't have an OS installed.

Look at the screen while it boots up, it should tell you which key to press to get into the BIOS. If your screen turns on too late to see it, trying a "warm boot" (Press [CTRL]+[ALT]+[DEL]), that should leave the monitor on.

Then of course you need the install disks or CD of your OS of choice to boot up. If you don't have a bootdisk, grab one here... http://www.bootdisk.com/

(Of course, there is still the 0.0001% chance that you have one of the FUBAR systems that have the BIOS on the HDD which was thus lost when you formatted, but as mentioned above, very unlikely)

Cheers,
Ronald