Boot disk issue

[pafke]

So, I've built my first pc, everything seems to be in place correctly. When booting, after the motherboard screen, I get my first message: Boot from CD/DVD: Disk failure, insert system disk and press enter. So I put in my windows disk, but it still does not recognize it. Since this was a copied version, I tried several other windows disks, but none seem to give a different msg than this one "Disk failure, insert system disk and press enter".

My question to you guys is: what are my options, what could be the issue? In case it migh help I listed my system:

Antec Performance One P182 (ATX, Geen PSU, Zwart)

Club3D HD 3870 X2

Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic

Gigabyte GA-X38-DS5

Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Lite-On LH-20A1S

OCZ OCZ2RPR800C44GK 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2

Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ, 750GB

Zalman ZM600-HP 600W (ATX, Heatpipe))

Vista Home 64 bit

[Alaron]

Welcome to PCMech.

Sounds like the machine is trying to boot from the hard drive, and it cannot since there is no operating system. Go into your BIOS and look for an option for Boot Devices. Select your CD drive as the primary, pop in the Windows CD and reboot. That should start the Windows setup.

[pafke]

Originally Posted by Alaron Welcome to PCMech. Sounds like the machine is trying to boot from the hard drive, and it cannot since there is no operating system. Go into your BIOS and look for an option for Boot Devices. Select your CD drive as the primary, pop in the Windows CD and reboot. That should start the Windows setup.

Allready did that, I set the first boot device to CD , second to HD, and disabled the 3rd.
I've also checked wether the motherboard detects the DVD player, and that's confirmed as well.
So it should be something else

Edit: IDE Chanel 0 Master [LITE-ON DVD LH20A1S]
IDE CHANEL 1 MASTER [SAMSUNG HD753LJ]

I've also allready tried switching the cables, that had no effect either

[pafke]

No suggestions?

[TwoRails]

Put your hard drive on IDE 0 as CS, and your optical on channel 1 as Master or CS. See if that helps.

[cmichael258]

Did you try installing the DVD player as slave on the IDE Channel 1? If that still doesn't work, I would question whether the DVD player is faulty.

[pafke]

you mean installing it as slave under the HD? or is it possible to set something to slave, without having a master at all?

apparently there should be a little switch at the back , but there isn't is there any other way of setting it to slave?

I just read somewhere that SATA does not have the option of master/slave?
They are both connected with a SATA connecter.

[TwoRails]

Originally Posted by pafke ... IDE Chanel 0 Master [LITE-ON DVD LH20A1S] IDE CHANEL 1 MASTER [SAMSUNG HD753LJ]

Correct: SATA does Not use Master/Slave or CS settings... but you did mention they were on the IDE channels.

I'm not familiar with Intel builds. Does your motherboard natively support SATA or do you have to install drivers?

What does your BIOS say? does it recognize your drives?

[pafke]

Originally Posted by TwoRails Correct: SATA does Not use Master/Slave or CS settings... but you did mention they were on the IDE channels. I'm not familiar with Intel builds. Does your motherboard natively support SATA or do you have to install drivers? What does your BIOS say? does it recognize your drives?

It does recognize the drives by itself, and I read from an other forum that the standard settings are set so, that SATA drives are "masked" as IDE drives and that you do not want this anyway since it slows the process down a bit, however, it should not change the functionality of the drives.

If I want to change this , then what do I do , do I change the raid or achi settings or something?

[pafke]

installed an old IDE, seems to be working, the drive was probably faulty