If I understand you right, the box will not boot from Floppy, CD, or HD. This is after you have set the BIOS to change the boot order? If not - change the boot order in the BIOS. If so - clear the BIOS with the motherboard jumper & try again. What was on this hard drive before? Did you clear the MBR? PS, I always use Partition Magic. No problems. Carl >The box will not boot, everything I try results in PRESS KEY TO REBOOT. > I have tried to boot from floppy and bootable CD and in both cases, >the BIOS accesses the media, beeps once and responds with PRESS KEY TO >REBOOT. The mobo is a FIC and the BIOS is Award.