gateway booting from floppy i have a gateway dx v with my inch floppy as drive a i accidentally discovered that if a have a floppy from one particular box of diskettets in the a drive when i boot up rather than getting the non system diskette message the machine hangs and the cmos gets overwritten luckily gateway sends a print of the standard cmos settings with their systems this only happens with a box of pre formatted fuji disks that i have no other disks cause this problem if i re format one of the fuji disks the problem goes away i did a virus scan scan v of the disks and found nothing anyone have any idea what is going on here hardware problem a virus that can t be detected the system reading in garbage from the boot sector tim king tcking uswnvg com
