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    Well, I spoke too soon. I got as far as partitioning the harddrive and thought I was home free... After the hard drive finished I got this error message........ The following value in the .sif file used by setup is corruped or missing. Value O on the line in section [source disk files]...
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    Hello. Appreciate ya'll trying to help.. I don't get the ntldr is missing [knockin' on wood' . I go thru the 6 diskettes to setup xp and when I get the to 6th one - it says windows can't find a hard drive.... I need the sata controller drivers and looking over intel's site I can't find any...
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    Tell me, how do you format C when you can't get in? thanks
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    I set the boot order and when I get the ''hit any key to boot from cd'' the NTLDR is missing comes up at the bottom of the setup screen and dies. I need to clean the hard drive and start over but have no idea how to do it when I can't even get past the main screen... thanks.
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    I have the xp sp2 cd - When I boot it just says in dos NTLDR Is missing.. restart......you restart and get the same message. I used the 6 xp setup diskettes and it loaded and when I put in the 6th disk it said ''windows detects no harddrive on your puter'' f3 to exit... I see the...
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    Doing a new build and ran into a dead end. Put it all together and started the windows xp setup and windows can't find any harddrive on my system. Went thru half the install when it this happened.. Rebooted and went to start over and got an ''NTLDR is missing'' error... Tried changing the bios...
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    Hit A Dead End

    Morning.. I finally got this thing together. The problem I'm having is a slow moving machine for some reason. Especially scrolling the pages up/down - very slow... http://www.amptron.com/html/MB-PM800-M2.html ECS PM-800-M2 Corsair 512 ramm XM2 Seagate 250 gig (Why do they say 250...
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    Hit A Dead End

    Thanks.. I've been up since 2am this morning. Will stare at it some more after i get some shuteye... appreciate your help.
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    Hit A Dead End

    HeHe. Thanks Moosey. I've been looking at these diagrams all day and for some reason I can't seem to make sense of it. Many wires are red/white and I suppose the red would be the + wire. The front usb has a plug and there's 2 usb plugins - 1 & 2 - It's a Quantum case with the carry handle on...
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    Hit A Dead End

    Well, I have attempted to build a new system and have hit a dead end with the front panel wires. I have installed the cpu - heatsink and fan - ramm. Not sure what to do with the Power Led/Hdd/Reset, etc. Installing The Intel 945GPM and I'm looking at the diagram but can't grasp it. The wires...
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    Intel Motherboard

    Purchased these 2 boards [new] OEM with no other accessories with them. Newbie here and would like to build a puter for myself and sister. Looked over intel's site and it's confusing as to which I/O shield plates and drivers, etc. I should get along with the cables. Would appreciate any help...