Unable to format and install a system on the Hard Drive.

[zndow]

Hi !

I am getting crazy after trouble shooting my new computer over almost a month, big help is very very welcome. To be sure i will be understood the right way, i will explain everything from the start.

First of all i bough a new computer with PCIexpress technology.

Asus P5GD2 socket775 (915P), P4 3.0EJ 1MG L2 Cache, 512MG DDR2 8X8 (Micron), ATI X700 Pro 256MG DDR3 (PCIexpress), Maxtor 80GB 8MG Cache ATA 133(Diamond Max 9 Plus), LG DVD/RW-and+ 52x16x32x52, Case Antec with power supply 20pin + 4 pin wires (380W +5V MAX 35A +12V MAX 24A +3.3V MAX 28A).

When i first finished to mount the system, when i booted the first time, after about 10 sec. the machine shutted down. I posted about it, did the HALL9000 directive on getting the mobo out and plugging only the nessecary items and finely got it to boot without shutting down. CPU was going up to 108 celcius when i first got in the bios at time. I guess it was only the heat sink that was not touching the CPU.

I remember when it was overheating, a message always appeared down the first window information about bios memory and the rest. Message was Overclocking. But when i got it right with the heat sink, message changed to Overcloking failure, but everything worked. Heat temp. of CPU was stable to 55 celcius.

From there i thought the Bios needed and update. Looked into asus and found out an update from 1004 version to 1005 version, there was 1002,1003,1004,1005. This made me think my Bios is not that bad if its already 1004.

When updated on the next boot i got the same message Overclocking failure. But the message appear only once then never reappear in both case with the 1004 or 1005. I have no idea is this message mean realy something, cause everything seem to work.

Here the real trouble now. When i put the xp pro sp1 in de dvd and boot from there, when the cd finish to load the files it give me a STOP error message. The error appear before the install,partition menu, and is *** STOP: 0x0000007B. Mycrosoft say this is cause of hardware trouble. Maybe Memory, Hard Disk, OR Motherboard.

To test the Hard Drive i put it in my old computer and format and install system with the same XP CD. Everything worked fine. I reinstalled the Hard Drive in the new computer without CD in the optic drive. The Hard Drive gone right away to the Safe Mode Page. First try i do normal, the machine reboot right away. Then Safe Mode, the machine load the safe mode files then reboot before any window splash screen. Try again with the XP CD and bang the same old Stop message show up.

Ok, maybe the DVD is crasy so used a floppy disk and boot the machine. Typing FDISK i see only Floppy partition A:. At the command prompt typing c: give me INVALID Message saying something like C: does not exist like i have no Hard Drive.

My Hard Drive is plug alone with the black plug 80 wire cable, Drive set to CS on the only IDE. DVD is plug on a 40 wire cable, set to master, on the primary ATA RAID set to IDE in the bios.

When i boot the raid scan get my DVD on Drive 0 DMA 2. In the BIOS My Hard Drive is recognyze as third IDE master DMA 6. Nothing else show up in Bios about Drive, only the HDD.

I tried Maxblast 4 once with no change. Maxblast have some color in the control panel so i asume my video card is not in cause, as the CPU. I tested the memory with memtest, nothing wrong from the tests. I test back the Hard Drive in my old computer but i only deleted and recreate the partition, with the same problem when i reinstalled the Hard Drive in the new computer.

My guest is the motherboard is stupid somehow lol.

Please if someone have a clue, help me i am deepely discourage right now.

[trulad]

try booting with the XP disk and choose "Install" . when it starts to install it will see that XP is already installed and give you an option to repair the existing os. Try that and see if that cures your problems. If you booted with a floppy, was it a 98 or ME floppy? With XP you probably have NTFS file system which 98 or ME can't read giving the same results as no hard drive present.
trulad

[SkullznXBones]

Well the DVD drive needs to be on the IDE with a 80 pin like your hard drive cept on the secondary IDE as your hard drive will use the primary IDE
The only time you use the 40 pin is for your floppy drives i think but could be wrong.
I got the same message when i built my first pc and went about insane trying to figure out what in the world was wrong with it since i could do everyhting cept get xp to load onto the pc only to find out about a month later after i got ahold of my sisters pc to check things out and found out the dvd burner was bad.

hope this helps ya out

[zndow]

Lol cant belive it. I plug the DVD outside the case with the Hard Drive on the same cable . DVD to slave and it work lol. But my troubles are not terminate. Window is not completely install and theres the drivers now. hope no more trouble.

By the way i have only 1 IDE port on my motherboard. Now i have to find a way to plug both pieces on the same cable and my case is an Antech with HDD case facing the left side of the side panel. Cause of this i need to let my DVD outside of the case lol. Wires are not long anough.

If someone can explain me how i can plug my dam DVD on the ATA port a make it work i will be very greatfull.

[ZYFER]

set the hard drive to Master, the DVD Drive to slave, then it should work no problems