Accidently messed with BIOS settings, PC wont boot up now

[King$nake]

I was messing with the Boot Order in BIOS, not my PC wont start up.

It just goes to white cursor that is flashing after I turn on the PC, and nothing happens.

I went into setup (F2) and its saying under the boot menu:

Onboard SATA Hard Drive (not present)

Also, when I boot with the Win XP Re-installation disk, I keep getting a Fatal Error (blue screen) at the setup screen when I try to install Windows

Please help,

Thanks
Joe

 

[Hefemeister]

Have you reset bios to default?

 

[Nitestick]

what drives are you using and how are they connected?

 

[King$nake]

Have you reset bios to default?

I went into Setup and under 'Maintenance' and selected 'Load Defaults'. It gave me a "Factory Default Acknowledgement" and beeped twice? Not sure what that means. Regardless, it didnt help.

It is now saying "Floppy Diskette Seek Failure" on startup.


Nitestick,

Just using factory drives from Dell.

 

[Nitestick]

change the dvd/cd drive to first priority, your main hdd to second and either disable or put floppy third. if you don't have a floppy drive look for an option to disable floppy disk controller or FDC.