Boot Disk problem

I have a problem with boot disks:

I have an old 486, that has a 3 1/4 and 5 1/2 drives, that connect to a controller card. Now everything seems to work fine, and the 3 1/4 disc drive reads fine (I assume). however when i get too the 2nd screen (which shows the pcs information) the boot disc continues to load as normal from the 3 1/4, and then will all of a sudden stop (Light goes off). this happens with every boot disc i have tried.

No error messages come up either.

Thanks.


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Hi Fizzgig,

The first thing that comes to mind on this is to look in the BIOS and see if the floppy drives are defined properly. You likely have the A drive installed as the 3 1/2 and the B drive as the 5 1/4.

You may also have a BIOS setting where you can change it to boot from C: A: or A: C: when it boots. (It may help if you could say a little as to precisley what you are desiring to do...)

Cheers!
-Squonk