A little bios problem here

[wera]

Okay well first off i just got done putting a computer togather out of really old parts when it first boots it says "cpu has been change please enter it in the bios and save settings" so yeah i set the cpu up save and exit then i get "abnormal hardware detected " with is usally normal with award bios when putting crap togather so anyways i have the windows 98 bootdisk in there so i can clean install 98 on the hard disk drive but instead of loading the floopy sdisk it goes to "verifing dmi pool data" then"update sucsess" so it is all good till it says "remove all media cds floppy disks/zip disks and press enter" so i remove the 98 boot disk and guess what. i get the same message..so what do i do now?

I am thinking the motherboard is screwed...or i have to reset the cmos settings.. any suggestions on how to fix this?
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[wera]

Oh yeah specs 400 mhz celeron SLOT a cpu *not soket a.. slot a* 32 mb 168 sdram simm westren digital caviar 14300 4311.9 mb *4 gigs* old compaq floopy disk drive old compaq psu intel wr377 motherboard northbridge just says intel along with south brie trident pro vidia 9685 graphics card creative sound card .. am i missing anything important? Mobo drivers are 1.00 btw.

[wera]

Oh yeah and 80 mm fan : |.*just so you know this is not my main rig it is something i am makeing for a friend*.

[bear]

It sounds like the BIOS is having issues. If there's an updated one, you should download that and flash the board. If you can give me the exact make and model (without run on sentences...very hard to follow), I'll try and find a newer one for you.

[wera]

I am not good with flashing bios i do have another board laying around though should i try that? all i can get off of the board is wr377 and award bios v1.0 *very old ver*.

[wera]

Update... i reset the cmos and well......nope nadda nothing... it is still doing the same thing i tried yet another floppy disk drive no dint work evan tried a diffrent prosessor *the same thing but 300 mhz* so i am about to just take this board out and put in a spare compq board i have laying around : |.

[wera]

Well i put that old compaq one that i had in there and all is well all i need now is a fdd cable becase this one won't work with this mobo for some reson.

[bear]

Glad you got it sorted out.