Sounds more and more like a bad hard drive.

I would try to get your BIOS setup to verify the floppy as first boot device then try PowerMax.

thats what i was just thinking because the harddrive is the only thing that cant decide what its doing i dont think ive gotten the same then twice in a row when i reboot it so ill get this floppy running but before (the first hdd that i cheaked like 3-4 months ago) i varified that the harddrive that im not using is bad so are both just bad harddrives?(well after i run power max but like could one be causing both to appir bad?)

so i got into BIOS and i went to the tap that says "Boot" but where do i go from here? ill list what my options are

Silent Boot [Enabled]
AddOn ROM Display Mose [Enabled]
Intel(R) Rapid BIOS Boot [Enabled]
PXE Boot to LAN [Disabled]
USB Boot [Enabled]

>Boot Device Priority
>Removeable Devices
>ATAPI CD-ROM Drives

wheres boot order or something?

Open this sub section:

>Boot Device Priority

yea my first one is my cd rom drive and the 2nd is my floppy should i try booting from the floppy again?

well i tryed to boot from it agian but it jsut came up with the same non-system disk or disk error message again... do i need to make another floppy?

I would set floppy first; then CD; then hard drive.

There is probably a Save Settings on Exit when you go to Exit.

yea there is ill try that but theres only 2 right now harddrive isnt on there its only CD then floppy

and it still gives me the same message

May I ask how you created the PowerMax diskette?