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Old May 8th 06, 06:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default My laptop tries to boot with the floppy drive

Something has changed with my laptop. When I reboot after it has been off
for awhile, like overnight, it tries to boot from the floppy drive and I get
"operating system not found". Changing the boot option to the hard drive
does no good. If I install the System Disk 1, change the boot option to the
CD ROM drive, and run through most of the diagnostics, it will eventually
boot on C: but very slowly. The more times I attempt a reboot, the faster it
gets. Once it is booted, I can restart the laptop and everything boots
normally (but it runs slower than normal). However, when I leave it off
overnight, it tries to boot from the floppy again and I get "operating system
not found". Norton Utilities Virus Scan and Lavasoft Ad-Aware have been
ineffective.
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Old May 8th 06, 06:58 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default My laptop tries to boot with the floppy drive

cmos battery failing perhaps, the 'watch' battery inside the case that
retains the setup info, so that it falls back to default settings, lowest
processor speed, a c cdrom boot, lowest screen res, after it is powered down
dont know how to find and replace a laptop battery,
you could google it, by make and model
or take it to the local pc shop and have them do it

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Something has changed with my laptop. When I reboot after it has been off
for awhile, like overnight, it tries to boot from the floppy drive and I

get
"operating system not found". Changing the boot option to the hard drive
does no good. If I install the System Disk 1, change the boot option to

the
CD ROM drive, and run through most of the diagnostics, it will eventually
boot on C: but very slowly. The more times I attempt a reboot, the faster

it
gets. Once it is booted, I can restart the laptop and everything boots
normally (but it runs slower than normal). However, when I leave it off
overnight, it tries to boot from the floppy again and I get "operating

system
not found". Norton Utilities Virus Scan and Lavasoft Ad-Aware have been
ineffective.



 




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