Booo!

[FireisBad]

Hey all, long time lurker 2nd time poster

So my buddies is building a pc

Will not post
stops at
"3rd master hard disk error"

Also
it wont always recognizing the DVD drives
it wont always let you into the BIOS

All hard ware is new

removed CMOS battery to clear bios

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

So i did got past this part... please scroll to the bottem to catch up ><

 

[Severian]

you're going to have to give us a tad more info than that.

namely, what processor, mainboard, etc etc...

 

[FireisBad]

MB - asus p5ld2
Processor - Intel dual core 3.4
Ram - 4 gigs "1 gig sticks OCZ ram"
Power supply - enermax 440

Drives

Asus
DVD dirve
Asus
DVDRW

No floppy


Video card - Asus 1900 xtx Video card

 

[Severian]

strip it down to just CPU, video card, one stick of RAM, and one hard drive. Unplug everything else. see if it'll POST properly then. If it does, add one component back at a time until you find the conflict.

Good luck

 

[FireisBad]

KK

Thank you

Taking it apart now

 

[FireisBad]

Right before the disassembly we had gotten the sucker to post but unless the windows cd is installed it will go to a blank screen with a blinking cursor that you cant do anything with

If the windows CD is in if get to a point where it says that error

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324103

So its a hard ware issue...
I can see why we would strip her all down just to see what is going wrong... yes?

 

[FireisBad]

Got to Boot
Bare
1 stick of RAM
1 10000 rpm hard drive "74 gig"
1 Video Card

"3rd Master disk error"
While posting

So what ever is plugged into the 3rd ide plug is the malfunction?

 

[FireisBad]

So... It seems that it might be his New Hard drive
The Raptor 74 gig
that might be the problem
So i took it home to Format it...
I hope that this does it... But we will say

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

The third master is the SATA controller. Perhaps a corrupted driver or partition error on the Raptor.

 

[FireisBad]

shall i try to reformat the raptor? its new... ill do it.

But first

Lets see so i Formatted his old drive a 120 hd

bios sees and reconize the HD

tryed to install Windows and it crashed
using the
Text

IS it one of the Media drives?

 

[FireisBad]

K
Well using the Microsoft floppy install for the first part of the windows..
Got past the Above mentiond error...

But

now the Disk drives wont be detected by windows...

Does this mean Windows wont let a DVD rom drive work if you use the 6 Floppies?

THis is crap

Im not sure where to go from this point...
But hope fully ill get some idea's from you guys or find it on my own ><

 

[FireisBad]

Ok so this is where we are now

Got the BIOS to read the Disk drives after setting them on the primary with one set to mast and the other set cable select

Now that the BIOS sees the Disk drives they dont show up on the post...

But none the less it is working as of now

The floppy's that i had down-loaded from Microsoft web site happent o be the wrong ones
I grabbed the SP1 rather then the sp2 ><

Right now we are formatting the Raptor drive and hoping that Windows will fully install...

 

[FireisBad]

Done.

 

[Severian]

so all is well? sounds like you had a long night there....

 

[inveterate]

check ur jumpers on those drives,, if u only have ONE drive on an ide channel it has to be cable select/single,

That actually fuks with the mobo sometimes..

set ur mem timings manually,, and probably even loosen them, cuz 4x1gig sticks,, bad idea..

whats with people and asus, i know they're originanly jap, but now all their stuff made in taiwan/china