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So I reformatted my hard drive on my old '98.

I'm having some problems with the BIOS, I think. I'm not quite sure what the trouble is.

I have taken a picture of my main BIOS screen.




All of the BIOS information is on the top.

For a while I could not boot with anything but my Hard Drive.





After rebooting a few times, the option to boot via Diskette appeared on the boot sequence menu. (To be honest I am not quite sure what I did to get it there, I had just reboot a few times with the Win98 CD in the CD Drive)

So, I made a '98 bootdisk from http://www.bootdisk.com/ (From where I found out about this forum) so I went to the BIOS and unchecked the Hard Drive and checked Diskette, and made sure Diskette was listed as #1. The Windows98 CD is in the CD drive.

So now I get a message that lets me know that I can retry with F1 or enter the BIOS Setup with F8. (or some other F# key)


All I would like to know is what's going wrong. Is the BIOS itself causing the problems? Something with the settings that I have configured to boot?

Thanks in advance,
~Dylan

Hi there, firstly, your bios is 3 updates out of date so upgrading that would be a good place to start: Bios A10

* Also, you may like to check ALL cabling to and from the drives inside your PC case
* Remove the bios battery (on the motherboard) and the power cable (leave for 5 mins) then re-insert both

Thanks.

. . . I don't know why I never thought to reset the BIOS battery.

Hya Bro_C.

Did removing and replacing the battery fix youre problem?