Solve : Power shutoff before rebooting or startup hangs?

1.	Solve : Power shutoff before rebooting or startup hangs?
Answer» ???Can not reboot without shutting down power. Startup will stop after Memory CHECK and CD-ROM Drive is RECOGNIZED. BIOS might be incorrectly configured because hangup is just before harddrives setup. I have OLD Award Modular BIOS v.2.51PG 08/11/97. Setting bootup order has limited selections. I can't set to >Floppy>CDROM>IDE-0 or A. E, C drives boot order. Closest selection offered is A > C > SCSI. Starting at Windows DESKTOP, if I select in shutdown window, reboot. Startup will stop after Memory Check and CD-ROM recognition. I must always shut-off power before Windows will load. I have just INSTALLED a new hard drive, which gave me a lot of problems. I have BIOS config. to recognize hard drive, and have partitioned, formatted and copied bootable hard drive contents to new drive which I will use as new boot drive C. Has anyone had asimilar problem with startup? Please advise. I am not considering upgrading my BIOS because of the large chance of errors.

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