cheapkelly

OK , reading your posts, I have a 2000 cd AND I made 4 disks(floppy) off of each. It had options, bootdisk or bootdk32, so I did the first choice. The WHOLE problem is no matter how I set up the bios,the computer will not boot to ANY drive, either the disks or the cd in the cdrom. The cdrom does work because when I put it in any other computer, it pops right up. The disk drive worked a month ago, so I'm sure that is OK. What's next to do??

OK , reading your posts, I have a 2000 cd AND I made 4 disks(floppy) off of each. It had options, bootdisk or bootdk32, so I did the first choice. The WHOLE problem is no matter how I set up the bios,the computer will not boot to ANY drive, either the disks or the cd in the cdrom. The cdrom does work because when I put it in any other computer, it pops right up. The disk drive worked a month ago, so I'm sure that is OK. What's next to do??

well,i tried both with no success. I tried going to winboot and got a floppy off of that, no success. Then I read to do if off the 2000 cd, so I put in my cd in a working computer and did the boot disks off that, 4 of them. I went to my bios and set up floppy, then hd, then ide0, put in the floppy#1, and restarted. (is that right)then when it started i got the same message. There is nowhwere on any screen to type in anything

No, I wanted to upgrade because for one, Me had TONS of problems. Another reason was because for the kids alot of stuff they wanted to download required 2000 or above.So,is there a way to shut off the network part if it?? No, I did install 2000, well, my son did, then I deleted both from the seagate floppies, so now there isn't anything. i'm trying to boot from the cdrom with the windows 2000 in it. Any clues?? I'm guessing it wants network, one,from the message I get, two, is that in the bios it goes to user,not auto for the hd .

I belong to another forum (shhh) and after 250+ they are clueless, so I'm putting you to the test. My son had a computer with 98se on it. We got a 2000 mulit-user disk to upgrade his, my daughters (also running 98) and my desktop (withe the awardwinning, wonderful ME,lol). Anyhow I did an upgrade on mine (me) and it's fine. He did a fresh install and had 2 o/s on it. The others walked me through on how to delete everything. I erased the hd using the seagate disks that I downloaded to 2 floppies, so it it completely bare with nothing on it at all. I am trying to reboot to the 2000 cd disk. My ribbons are set up correctly to the ide and the bios are set. I have an atx mb I guess, model L7vmm2. It is reading my hd and my cd/dvd. I have 3 different cdroms, but only have one hooked up. Each is set to primary on it's own ide. ANYHOW, when I go to boot order, i do the cd/dvd0, and ide0. I have a floppy too, on the smaller type of ide connection. Anyhow,I guess what it comes down to is it is trying to find a network. When I go to the bios and either put in auto or press f3, both of which try to find drives, it reads both of them, but instead of auto or hdd , it shows user on my hdd. Is there a way around this on how to shut of network boot (If this is indeed the problem)? Now, I do sound like I know what i"m doing, that is only because of how many posts I had to go through. I follow directions well, but please don't use too many technical words, as I'm just learning the ins and outs of "the guts of computers". LOL Thanks in advance