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Originally posted by Paul
Darant do you have UDMA drives? If so do you have them on 80pin IDE cables?
Okay here is what I would do (just a suggestion):
Put the Hard drive you are installing Windows to on the first connector on the cable plugged into IDE1, Makes sure the jumper on the hard drive (little plastic thing that sits across a pair of pins near where the IDE and power cables plug in) is set to master.
Make sure if the CDRom and HD are on the same cable that HD is master and CDROM is set to slave.
If you want you can put your CDROM drive on a seperate IDE cable on IDE 2 and have it set as master.
Think what bonzoe was refering to in his post is that its easier to diagnose the problems before windows is installed as you are guaranteed that its a hardware problem. Introducing software would increase the risk of adding a software fault too which would confuse the situation.
For the primary install I would suggest only having your hard-drive, CDROM and graphics card installed. Take anything else out if its plugged into the mobo. If you aren't hearing any beeps when you power up then it would suggest that no hardware faillure has been detected. (Doesn't rule it out though)
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right. What about the processors? Do I enclude them at the start? Im hearing no bleeps. When you say first connector, is that from the top or bottom of the cable.