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12-18-2002, 11:52 PM
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New Build Start Problems
Can you help
I'm Building a new PC every thing seems ok i am going to install the hardware bit at a time I have the power supply etc fitted I have fitted the Video card and ram, powered up one bleep all sees ok connects monitor and hard drive and cd player. comos sees the drive and the CD then there is a a message saying that raid cannot find the drives it then says bios not loaded no drives found then the message system disk fail Can you help Mother board is Gigabyte GA-7VAXp altra Video card Gig Radon9000 pro 512ddr Cheers Fred W
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12-19-2002, 01:14 AM
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Hmm, where are you plugging the drives to?
You ain't plugging them in the RAID IDEs, are you?
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12-19-2002, 02:51 AM
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No just connecting to the main board ide one and two as per the instructions
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12-19-2002, 06:52 AM
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The messages you are getting are normal. Check your manual, if you are not using the RAID connectors, you have to disable the RAID controller BIOS with jumpers or in CMOS. The reason you are getting the system disk fail message is the hard drive is not yet partitioned, formatted, and loaded with an operating system. If you set the boot order in CMOS to CD first and boot from your Windows CD, you will be able to proceed.
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12-20-2002, 10:56 AM
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Hi GLC
That advise was spot on just as you said, I'm nearly up and running with my new PC with no problems that I can see at the present thanks to you and this site. Could i ask one more thing I have purchased a AMD 2200+ processor It came in a small blue box with no markings to say what it was or what type. I never checked the top of the processor just fitted it, now system check reports the processor to be 1500+ is there any way I can check it with out takeing of the cooling fan Thanks Fred W |
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12-20-2002, 11:54 AM
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As far as I know, there is no AMD processor ID utility as there is for Intel, but are you sure you have the FSB/CPU Frequency set correctly in the BIOS? Also, the 2200+ does not run at 2.2GHz, but rather at 1.8GHz.
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12-20-2002, 01:32 PM
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It sounds like your FSB is set to 100 MHz instead of 133 MHz. Check your jumper and BIOS settings.
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12-20-2002, 07:38 PM
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My Gigabyte board has RAID also. If you don't diable it in BIOS it will give that message each time you boot. It doesn't hurt anything but if you don't want to see it everytime just disable it in BIOS.
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12-20-2002, 11:50 PM
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Thanks for your help changed the jumpers to 133 now reports it's an 2200+ processor thats nice running at 1800 is that about right
I have also adjusted the BIOS to get rid of the raid warning Thanks again |
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