Can't Restart After BIOS Update

Hi,

I’m using ASUS P5N-E S motherboard. I have used the EZ-Flash 2 utility to update my BIOS from a floppy disk. It went fine. The BIOS was updated and the computer restarted.

After it restarted however, I got a message saying that the computer couldn't start and I would need to restore the default settings. I went to setup and restored the default settings and now whenever I try to start my computer, I get the following error: "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER".

Please can someone tell me how I can stop this from happening and get my computer to start up normally?

Thanks,
Joe

have you taken the floppy disk or any other disk out of the drive before the os begins to load, this message usually appears if floppy disk or cd is in the computer and the computer is trying to read these disks as and operating system installation, check all the the disk drives are empty and restart

if you have already done that then there may be a problem with the os installation you may need to re-install your operating system,
did anything strange happen during the flash such as a powercut are there any strange beeps on startup?

I can think of two things:

1.Try going into bios and playing with your boot priorities. (If you need assistance on this, just ask)

2.Try using your windows disc to "repair" your installation. The disc might be able to fix boot issues.

Most likely your boot settings are wrong. Do you have more than one hard drive in your system? Most likely it's booting to the wrong drive.

Thank you for your advice. I tried making some changes in the BIOS setup utility, but nothing seemed to help, so I tried unplugged all my hard drives except my C drive and the computer started up OK. I then added my other hard drive one by one, restarting each time and now everything's working fine.

It is the boot order. flashing the CMOS will reset all your optiosn (including any overclocks)

so you need to go and set your c drive to be the first to boot.

Hi,
If your BIOS had anti-virus protection or other-wise-ly named write-protect function in the BIOS, you may have needed to disable that first, before trying to flash the BIOS. That may have caused the erase failure. It's difficult to figure out precisely what happened, but if it were my machine, I'd be a bit leery of any bios flashing procedure that failed and then said "updating this and that. However, since the machine seems to work, I'll leave it to you if you want to leave well sufficient alone, or re-flash it.

Thanks

maki said:

Hi,
If your BIOS had anti-virus protection or other-wise-ly named write-protect function in the BIOS, you may have needed to disable that first, before trying to flash the BIOS. That may have caused the erase failure.

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Where did he say that the flash (failed)

maki said:

It's difficult to figure out precisely what happened, but if it were my machine, I'd be a bit leery of any bios flashing procedure that failed and then said "updating this and that.

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It didnt fail and he never said any thing about updating this and that.

It said "DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER". Which means he neded to reset his boot order.