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06-18-2008, 09:28 AM
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New build, can't get XP to load
Hi,
My Dell desktop died so I decided to try building my own for the first time with help from PCMech. Just a basic home office computer--ASUS M2A-VM HDMI motherboard using the onboard VGA (no additional card), with an AMD 64 X2 4400 processor, 60Gb IDE hard drive, Phillips DVD burner. Everything went together okay, fans and LEDs work. Powered up okay, got the motherboard screen, made few BIOS adjustments, leaving most things on Auto, but set boot priority to the optical drive. I have two XP disks, and get the same problem with each. When I reset with the disk in the drive, I get the blue screen with "Windows Setup" in the upper left corner. The white bar at the bottom runs through the files that are loading into memory, then the white bar says "Setup is starting Windows." And then nothing happens. With one disk (a Dell reinstallation disk), the screen goes blank after 2-3 minutes. With the other, an MSDN disk 1012 from October, 2001, which gives me a choice of Home edition or Pro, the blue screen with "Setup is starting Windows" remains up indefinitely. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help you can give. |
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06-18-2008, 11:01 AM
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Are you using an 80 wire Ultra ATA cable for your IDE devices? Are the IDE devices jumpered Cable Select?
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06-18-2008, 10:22 PM
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Thanks for responding. How are things in Joplin? I'm in St. Louis.
My only IDE device is the hard drive. Optical drive is SATA. The cable is 80-wire, doesn't say Ultra, but it's the same hard drive cable that was in the 5+ year old Dell desktop. It says HD2/ZIP on it. I'm only using one hard drive, plugged in at the end, not middle of the cable, and the jumper is set for Cable Select. The main BIOS screen recognizes the hard drive by make and model (Samsung SP0612N) as Primary IDE Master and recognizes the optical drive as SATA 1. Would it do that if the cable were defective? HDD SMART Monitoring is disabled, whatever that means. I tried loading XP again after unplugging and replugging cables. Same result. Does any of this give you further ideas? Thanks again. |
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06-18-2008, 10:51 PM
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Enable your CDROM.........
as FIRST BOOT DEVICE.
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06-19-2008, 03:01 PM
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Thanks, Chuck4456. I enabled CDRom as first boot device from the start, so that doesn't appear to be the problem. Other ideas?
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