[drlovemoose]

I got a computer from my friend and he told me it needs a new hard drive. Its an asus decktop PC. When I turn the PC on it says: Disk Boot FAILURE insert system disk and press ENTER... does this PC need a new HD or how can I check. I did check all the cables and connections and they seem fine. When I went into ALT + F2 I got the following:
ASUS EZ FLASH V 1.60
ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC
[ONBOARD BIOS INFORMATION]
BIOS VERSION: AZUS ASUS A7V8X ACPI BIOS REVISON 1006
BIOS MODEL A7V8X
BIOS BUILT DATE 09/13/02

PLEASE ENTER FILE NAME FOR NEW BIOS...

NOTE: EZ FLASH WILL COPY FILE FROM A:\

Does this mean a new BIOS is needed? Please help thank you.

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Take the hard drive out and see who is the manufacturer. Then go to their website and download a diagnostic utility to create a bootable floppy disk. Put a blank formatted floppy in the drive and run the utility.

Reboot and change the boot order to floppy first. Save the changes and exit, leaving the floppy in the drive.

[RichP]

Take the hard drive out and see who is the manufacturer. Then go to their website and download a diagnostic utility to create a bootable floppy disk. Put a blank formatted floppy in the drive and run the utility.

Reboot and change the boot order to floppy first. Save the changes and exit, leaving the floppy in the drive.

[dsenette]

why'd you press alt f2?..i assume that is what brought up the asus bios flash utility which...you shouldn't need to monkey with..

have you put a new hard drive in the computer yet?

[drlovemoose]

I did not put a new hard drive in yet but I will try to run the HD diagnostics test and see what happens. How do I go and change the boot order I was pressing F8 and no luck.

[RichP]

It's usually by pressing F2 as your computer starts up. It should tell you briefly as it starts. If not that, it's often F1, Esc or Del.