new pc wont boot from floppy or CD

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firenutx

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New PC. AMD 4400 Dual core on an Asus a8n-sli deluxe. I need to update the BIOS to correctly recognize the processor.

I downloaded the win98 boot disk from bootdisk.com. My PC says that it isnt a system disk and will not boot any farther. Just out of curiousity I tried booting from a Win xp-64 CD, same result.

Also, this is the second power supply. I forgot to check and the first one was set to 230V. I apparently fried it as it will no longer power on. Swapping the PSU brought back the rest of the PC.

Any ideas?

I know I need to update the bios but cant I do that with the dual core CPU? Maybe something else is fried, though everything shows up correctly in the BIOS.

Tired and frustrated.
 
Try running Memtest86 from either floppy or cd.
As its self booting then it sould be good, plus it will check if the power surge has damaged your memory.

Luck......... :D
 
what do you have your boot option set to in your bios, i thought if it was posting though a bios update wasnt necessary
 
Memtest is a good idea. I will try that and update. But I do not suspect any change as i have tried multiple boot floppies win98, winME and the windows CD.

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Floppy is the first option, then CD's, then HDDs. I looked though previews of the dual-core AMD's and they show that the system will not be aware of the 2nd core until the update but that everything should work as normal.

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I suspect that the Mobo is fried. I plan to order a new one tonight as it is killing me to wait.
 
Well it isnt the mobo either. I was hoping that the controller chip was fried (and Asus support seemed to have the same thought) but a replacement performs the same way.

I know that the lowest dual core BIOS is 1010 and the mobo has 1008. I had thought that this would only cause one core to be recognized but that may not be the case.

I can borrow a CPU from a friends new PC and test this. Wish me luck.

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PS: Asus support has yet to call me back though they have promised to twice on seperate occasions.
 
Just out of curiosity, what kind of proc. are you borrowing to test.

Good luck to ya.
 
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