Boot failure, plz help!

[Quintox]

I went on my PC, which was on standby, and I moved the mouse to get the screen up. When I did this, it came, and I went to click on a program. When I did that, the PC froze, so I restarted.

It will POST, but after that (when it's suppose to load windows) I get a black screen that says "Boot Failure, Insert bootable disk into floppy"

What happened? I don't have a floppy anyway. I loaded bios defaults, still no work.....

Help?

PS. F8 didn't work, and bios doesn't recognize my two IDE controllers (HDD/CD ROM)

EDIT: IT WORKS, I REPLUGGED SOME THINGS IN AND RESEATED BATTERY

THANKS!

 

[brady]

Do you happen to have access to another machine that you could quickly make a bootable?

or : Do you have the OS disk ?

 

[Quintox]

I have the OS CD, and I am on another PC right now.

 

[brady]

This forum has a post with all the bootable disks shared.
Search this forum for 98 boot disks. Or you can try to boot from cd and "repair" the install that way. I would try the repair first.

 

[Quintox]

EDIT: IT WORKS, I REPLUGGED SOME THINGS IN AND RESEATED BATTERY

THANKS!

 

[brady]

lol good times.