Cable Forum - Help With PC Build

Page 5 of 5

Show 100 post(s) from this thread on one page

Cable Forum (https://www.cableforum.uk/board/index.php)

- General IT Discussion (https://www.cableforum.uk/board/forumdisplay.php?f=19)

- - Help With PC Build (https://www.cableforum.uk/board/showthread.php?t=33638973)

zing_deleted

25-09-2008 22:30

Re: Help With PC Build

make sure the sata are set to IDE!!!!!!! section 3-13 storage configuration. I suspect it is not booting because its a sata optical drive until this can be ruled out then I can be of no more help

terryw

25-09-2008 22:34

Re: Help With PC Build

They are set to IDE.

Scrubbs

25-09-2008 22:37

Re: Help With PC Build

Quote:

Originally Posted by David F (Post 34642957)

make sure the sata are set to IDE!!!!!!! section 3-13 storage configuration. I suspect it is not booting because its a sata optical drive until this can be ruled out then I can be of no more help

go zingle, go zingle, go go go :hyper::cleader::cleader::cleader::nworthy:

go on.......you know you want to:)

budwieser

25-09-2008 22:39

Re: Help With PC Build

Quote:

Originally Posted by terryw (Post 34642942)

As much as i would like for Damien to help me, many issues arise such as paying, parents allowing a man of the internet into the house etc.
I do thank Damien for the offer though :D

So to clarify do i need to change any settings in BIOS for it to boot from the CD/DVD driver-other than setting the boot to CD/DVD?

See if Damien is willing to let you take the pc to his house then mate.:)

damien c

25-09-2008 22:48

Re: Help With PC Build

Quote:

Originally Posted by budwieser (Post 34642963)

See if Damien is willing to let you take the pc to his house then mate.:)

that is fine if you wanted to bring it here as i have no problem with that and your parents can come aswell. as i say i do know what im doing have been building pc's since i was 10 years old so its not a problem for me, i can come to yours or it can be brought to mine and i'm available any day after 1pm except this saturday. if you decide that you want me to look at it for you all you need to do is send me a pm ;)

The Hitman

26-09-2008 00:17

Re: Help With PC Build

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scrubbs (Post 34642962)

go zingle, go zingle, go go go :hyper::cleader::cleader::cleader::nworthy:

go on.......you know you want to:)

Can I watch The Master in action ;):D

zing_deleted

26-09-2008 00:19

Re: Help With PC Build

Ok earlier you said you have an XP cd . Please remove your ide optical drive from the machine you are on now and fit it into the new build and try to boot from the xp cd :)

As I said before pretty much all bios's set to default when first booted will automatically boot from the cd when there is no file table on the hard drive. So if all was well with the build in normal circumstances the machine would have just booted from the disc without setting boot from cd first.
My machine does boot from sata roms though so by rights yours should. I want to rule out a dodgy drive.

You did not go into any more detail earlier did you? where you said the machine just turned off. Has this happened since?

hoggie

27-09-2008 02:16

Re: Help With PC Build

Quote:

Originally Posted by David F (Post 34642475)

you can not install an operating system on one machine then move the hard drive to another it does not work that way. For a start the boot setup could be wrong and if it issnt unless you have the same chipset or similar in both machines it will just crash or be problematic due to chipset driver conflicts

well i have an image of windows XP Pro on an external hard drive which i have used to load windows on all three of my pc's and it has worked fine. and it is seen as a bootble drive via usb. but as you say if its not done right it will not work.
there is a tutorial.
here's the one i used. two years ago:D

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713

EDIT: Sorry for going of topic

---------- Post added at 01:16 ---------- Previous post was at 00:41 ----------

are you trying to load xp or vista ?

xp has only just got SATA drivers in SP3. just seen this on another forum. so not sure if its correct.

All times are GMT +1. The time now is 07:28.

Page 5 of 5

Show 100 post(s) from this thread on one page