"Perry Hoekstra" <dutchman at uswest.net> wrote:
> 
> The box will not boot, everything I try results in PRESS KEY TO REBOOT. 
>   I have tried to boot from floppy and bootable CD and in both cases, 
> the BIOS accesses the media, beeps once and responds with PRESS KEY TO 
> REBOOT.  The mobo is a FIC and the BIOS is Award.

I think this might be a variant of the `NO ROM BASIC' problem, where the
system will halt on boot if a there doesn't appear to be a valid partition
table on the first disk.  You might have to find another hard drive with a
valid partition table to put in as the primary master disk.

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