windows installation problem help plz...

[JERIXxX]

i just finished my comp fired it up everything was fine bios, read my ide drives(i do have dvd drive and hd in same ide) i make dvd drive boot device. i put the disc in and it reads it for a bit and stops and on the screen it just stays on a page with a bunch of numbers and other stuff. and on the bottom pops up[ boot from cd/dvd ].. dont know what to do

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ds3
e6600
ati card

[ktkendall]

Try pressing enter when the PC gets to the line that reads boot from cd.

[JERIXxX]

ya i did already, i took off hard drive just to see if the dvd drive was the problem, and the disc booted up normaly but when i added on the hdd cause u need it to install, it didnt read it

[ktkendall]

Try putting harddrive and dvd on seperate channel. That is the recommended way anyways. You may have the jumpering incorrectly set for them to work togother on the same channel.

[JERIXxX]

i have hdd on master and optical as slave should i move them around

[ktkendall]

Do you only have 1 ide chanel on that board?

[JERIXxX]

yes, the ds3 only has one

[ktkendall]

OK, then if you are using an 80 wire ide cable, you should try jumpering both drives to CS, and the harddrive goes to the very end connection, the optical drive in the middle, and blue to the motherboard.

[JERIXxX]

ok ill try that thnxs..

[JERIXxX]

same thing happened the drive read it then just stopped and it still stays on that screen on the top it says IDE Channel 4 : Master disk HDD SMART capabilaty . . . . . . disabled , just thought it might be helpful

[whubbard]

your sure your BIOS has it as your boot drive? ...and the jumper is set correctly?

[JERIXxX]

yes im pretty sure the bios has the hdd as master and optical as slave, and i went to advanced bios features and made first boot device cd rom, it just stops reading it after a bit

[ktkendall]

I can't say that I've ever tried to do that, ( install windows, with cd and hd on same channel), but my thoughts are that it may be problematic no matter what because when 2 devices share 1 ide chanel they can not be accessed simultaneously. I still think it should work, although we really don't recommend sharing optical and harddrives on the same ide channel. Smart is just a harddrive tool that monitors the health of the drive. Whats the make and model of the harddrive?

[ITlover]

yes im pretty sure the bios has the hdd as master and optical as slave, and i went to advanced bios features and made first boot device cd rom, it just stops reading it after a bit


Their cannot be a problem with data cable since CD-ROM is working fine on it, are you sure that you are connecting HDD to primary master and CD-ROM to primary slave?

It is always recommended to connect HDD with primary master and CD-ROM secondary master.

Try connecting your HDD to another Computer,if it works fine on another Computer then it means that their is something wrong with the compatibility of your HDD with your former computers motherboard.

Also you can do 1 more thing, if you have another fine working computer, then take out its HDD and connect it to this computer and see if it works fine or not.

Please list down your computer specifics, the brand and model of your hardware devices.

[ITlover]

may be your DVD ROM is having problem with your HDD, your HDD drivers might not be accepting DVD device, can you please give your Computer configuration, your HDD, RAM, CD-ROM, MB.

[ktkendall]

ITlover, he does not have a secondary ide channel.