First off, remove jumper from isa clr, that is only meant to be used for clearing the isa bus, once complete needs to be moved back or unjumpered to post again.

Second, the CDROM is being seen properly, indicated by SCSI ID5 NEC CDROM designation. The entries about no boot device is normal, basically stating it doesn't have a HDD with OS to boot to. So ignore that for now.

Boot to bios, hit ctrl-p to pull up second page, confim boot to CDROM is first in boot order if not make changes necessary.

Then give it another shot, if still getting errors I would test your media on another system and confirm it is bootable, potentially you have a bad CD.

Also watch the sceen carefully for the "hit any key to boot to CD rom" or it never will, usually standard when w2k CD is in place.

And if you get all that working, remember you will need the RAID drivers on a floppy to load w2k. Will need to hit F6 when intial w2k blue screen come sup to load RAID drivers.\

Hope that helps.

Hi Lee,

If there is no added hardware, the only thing I can think of which would cause this anomaly is the NVRAM is corrupted. We need to clear the NVRAM via the ISA_CLR jumper on the motherboard, then enter the System BIOS and reset to the default settings.

Check the section on System Board Jumpers  in the Installation and Troubleshooting Guide:

Once this is complete, enter the System BIOS. Light the 3 keyboard LED's (Caps lock, Num lock and Scroll Lock). Hold the ALT key down and press the E key. The system should beep once. Then hold the ALT key down and press the F key. you will then need to reset the time and turn off any unused peripherals, such as the parallel port, serial ports, etc. Then reboot the system.

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