Help With PC Build - Page 5

25-09-2008, 21:30

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, 21:34

They are set to IDE.

Scrubbs · 25-09-2008, 21:37

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Originally Posted by David F

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

go on.......you know you want to

budwieser · 25-09-2008, 21:39

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Originally Posted by terryw

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

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, 21:48

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Originally Posted by budwieser

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 · 25-09-2008, 23:17

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Originally Posted by Scrubbs

go zingle, go zingle, go go go

go on.......you know you want to

Can I watch The Master in action

25-09-2008, 23:19

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, 01:16

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Originally Posted by David F

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

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

EDIT: Sorry for going of topic

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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.