"Invalid Boot Disk"

I will check that, what may have caused the boot sequence to change?

but that is how the BIOS works, it has a list of drives that it checks in sequence for bootable media. Usually a floppy drive, (if there is one), then a CD ROM Drive for a bootable CD, then finally the hard drive.

I'm not saying that's the cause of this problem. But if the BIOS is not moving on from checking for a floppy drive bootable disk then perhaps the hard disk has been removed from the list.

Mark

well, I could not get into bios. No matter how many times I pressed any of the F keys, the only key that worked was tbe F8 key. The only selection that worked was "last know configuration. It finally booted, and I resetted to test it, and it now boots normally.

BUT

It now runs ridiculously slow, so slow in fact that it took almos a half an hour to let it fully load, start firefox, and get here.

Any ideas?

have anything plugged into the usb port, does he?

I had my flash drive plugged in and got the fammous invalid boot disk error.


Rick

You were right. He had a usb wireless mouse in the front that was causing the whole problem. I unplugged it, computer ran smooth, and had no other problems once it was removed.

Thanks to all who helped!!

and well done to Rick for knowing that.

Mark