error 1962: no operating system found

Hello,

I've bought an IBM ThinkCentre S51 (Celeron D processor) without any OS on
it, because I wanted to boot it from the CD-ROM-drive and install an OS
(fedora 11 first, but it did also not work with XP and others).
I was able to access the BIOS, to change the boot order and other
settings, and the CD-ROM was listed in the BIOS. The CD-ROM-drive also
started to work for about a minute, but then it stopped and the error
1962: no operating system found was prompted.
The same error appeared when trying to boot from floppy disk or other
bootable CD-ROMs like WinXP, Win98, an IBM BIOS Update and others.
Everything seemed to work, I also checked if the connection cables are
damaged and all drives seemed to work.

I hope someone can help me to solve this problem with error 1962, thanks!
Josef

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I've solved the problem, the seller of the PC replaced the CD/DVD-drive
and now it works

Am 22.07.2009, 13:16 Uhr, schrieb Josef <>:

> Hello,
>
> I've bought an IBM ThinkCentre S51 (Celeron D processor) without any OS
> on it, because I wanted to boot it from the CD-ROM-drive and install an
> OS (fedora 11 first, but it did also not work with XP and others).
> I was able to access the BIOS, to change the boot order and other
> settings, and the CD-ROM was listed in the BIOS. The CD-ROM-drive also
> started to work for about a minute, but then it stopped and the error
> 1962: no operating system found was prompted.
> The same error appeared when trying to boot from floppy disk or other
> bootable CD-ROMs like WinXP, Win98, an IBM BIOS Update and others.
> Everything seemed to work, I also checked if the connection cables are
> damaged and all drives seemed to work.
>
> I hope someone can help me to solve this problem with error 1962, thanks!
> Josef
>



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