Troubleshooting

Flowchart 2.13—No OS Loading, Diskette Drive

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

OS not loading

Reseat

OS

 

Done

from

 

 

 

 

 

 

diskette drive.

loading?

 

 

 

diskette drive.

 

 

 

 

 

 

N

Y

Nonsystem

disk message?

 

N

Bootable

 

Install bootable

diskette

 

diskette and

in drive?

 

reboot notebook.

N

N

Boot

from another

device?

Y

N

Diskette

drive enabled in the Setup utility?

Y

Y

Is diskette drive boot order correct?

N

Change boot priority using the Setup utility.

Go to

Flowchart 2.17, Nonfunctioning Device.

Enable drive

and cold boot

notebook.

Clear CMOS.

Refer to

Section 1.2, “Clearing a Password,” for instructions.

Go to

Flowchart 2.17, Nonfunctioning Device.

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check diskette

 

 

 

 

for system files.

 

 

 

 

Try different

 

 

 

 

diskette.

 

 

 

 

 

Y

 

 

 

 

1. Replace

 

Nonsystem

 

 

diskette drive.

 

disk error?

 

 

2. Replace system

N

 

 

board.

Y

 

 

 

OS

 

 

Done

 

loading?

 

 

 

 

 

 

N

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