Computer won't post help!

[imported_Adonis]

WOA!

Something happened, i connected my other comp's speaker and put one stick of ram into the b1 slot.

I got a beep and a black screen on the monitor, on which it said: "reboot & select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"

Now what do i do?

 

[ShizNet]

HD... either BUSTed.. or not rite jumper... here is your CLUE

 

[imported_Adonis]

At this point all I did was connect the psu to the mobo outside the case, installed the vid card and ram, and pressed power. It doesn't have a hdd attached to it yet. Is this a good sign though?

 

[ShizNet]

oh yeah.. make sure that cable from HD (hardDrive) is in ATA-0 (or 1.. whatEver is smaller)
and... sry for misspells - drunk as a skunk... saturday.. u know

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Adonis
WOA!

Something happened, i connected my other comp's speaker and put one stick of ram into the b1 slot.

I got a beep and a black screen on the monitor, on which it said: "reboot & select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key"

Now what do i do?

sweet, it lives Hit the Reset button (if it's hitched up) and then hit the DEL key to get into the BIOS, set memory voltage to 2.7 volts (I think it's in Advanced Chipset > Jumperfree maybe? going from memory here ), then do that Save & Exit, and let it just go on through its next POST until it stalls, so it knows that the voltage bump is an ok setting to keep.

I will get you some links to the 1008 BIOS and such. You can start by going to my page and get the last link on the page, which is a Zip file containing four things. One of them is a utility that makes a bootable DOS floppy (drdflash.exe). Run that to make a bootable DOS floppy and then you'll need the 1008 BIOS from Asus and the AFUDOS flashing utility. BRB.

 

[imported_Adonis]

Wait something's wrong now .. I'm pressing the power button to restart it, and nothing, it's dead, completely.

 

[mechBgon]

Here's the Asus page with the 1008 BIOS and the AFUDOS update utility: link. They're inside Zip files. Extract them from the Zip files onto your bootable floppy and now you're ready for action

The command that you type to do the update is shown in your manual. I'm afraid I don't recall what section for sure but I'll take a shot and say it's 4.1.6 or thereabouts. Anyway, it's in the beginning of the BIOS section of the manual, and they show a black screen with a text command that runs the update from a bootable floppy like you're doing here.

Good luck!

 

[ShizNet]

well?? is u is? or is u ain't?
@ this point i wouldn't fook w/ reLoading bios (yet) get that box going.. start hi (on voltage) and low (on overClocking and clocking)
tell us what's up w/ HD's, bios, and beeps

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Adonis
Wait something's wrong now .. I'm pressing the power button to restart it, and nothing, it's dead, completely.

If it hasn't gotten into the Windows stage, they often have that behavior. Fire it up again and just begin tapping that Delete key even before the video comes up, so it doesn't get ahead of you.

 

[ShizNet]

cause we did hear from u.. i'm 99% sure.. now u need to reSet CMOS (by jumper): there (to reSet) and back >> reLoad

 

[imported_Adonis]

I managed to get into the bios setup utility, but I'm not sure what to do now. I see no options to change ram voltages and it wants to located ide hdd's. My hdd's are sata so how do i get the system to understand?

I set the date and time.

I'm not quite sure what to do next honestly.

Any of you guys on msn?

 

[ShizNet]

change the ORDER: which drive goes first, cause u have sATA - set SATA first .. and so on.. it's just a simple HD issue.. don't worry much.. it's OK.. u r almost THERE.. if not 2nite.. in da morning u'll be there.. READ manual for sata settings

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Adonis
I managed to get into the bios setup utility, but I'm not sure what to do now. I see no options to change ram voltages and it wants to located ide hdd's. My hdd's are sata so how do i get the system to understand?

I set the date and time.

I'm not quite sure what to do next honestly.

Any of you guys on msn?

I wish I had my arsenel of mobo manuals here *Note to self, burn a CD with my collection of manuals and bring it to parents' place.*

In the A8V Deluxe's menu system, is there an Advanced section? And then... what, maybe Chipset Features > Jumperfree. Rummage around a little.

 

[imported_Adonis]

Ok I couldn't find any option for jumperfree. But I did find the option for manual voltage settings, you want me to set ddr voltage to 2.7 volts? why?

I'm gonna rip out the floppy from this comp and install it in that one to update the bios in a minute.

edit: I can't find any option to setup sata over ide : /

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Adonis
Ok I couldn't find any option for jumperfree. But I did find the option for manual voltage settings, you want me to set ddr voltage to 2.7 volts? why?

I'm gonna rip out the floppy from this comp and install it in that one to update the bios in a minute.

edit: I can't find any option to setup sata over ide : /

2.7 volts for stability reasons, basically. I have Corsair 3200C2 myself and that's what I use, even at stock speeds.

In the BIOS, there's a BOOT menu that includes Boot Device Priority and you can dive into that and set your boot devices to suit your needs.

Be aware that if you start with just your SATA drive (which is a good plan, so it gets drive letter C: instead of like F: or something), and then add a PATA drive as a storage drive, the motherboard will start trying to boot from the PATA drive because it likes to make life hard for you :evil: You can just come back into the BIOS and re-establish the SATA drive as the boot drive and you're back online again, however.

 

[imported_Adonis]

arrgh I can't get it to boot!

I installed the cd rom and ide hdd from my other comp, when it boots, it switches to checking for ide devices and finds nothing!

It says : "no drives attached to fastrack controller. The bios is not installed" ???

It also says: "overclock failed! Please enter setup to reconfigure your system" ???



What do i do to get windows on this machine?

 

[mechBgon]

As I said in my last post there, if you add PATA drives, you have to go and put your SATA drive back in the driver's seat as the boot drive one time.

 

[mechBgon]

Oh, and a couple more tips:

1) the Promise Fasttrack controller always says that "no drives attached to fastrack controller. The bios is not installed" stuff if it has no hard drives hooked to it. You can disable the whole Promise controller in the mobo's BIOS and you won't be plagued by it in the future

2) the Promise controller won't run optical drives

3) the Promise controller hosts this PATA plug here. In light of the fact that the Promise controller won't run an optical drive, make sure your opticals are not plugged onto that plug on the mobo. And if you disable the Promise controller altogether then nothing will run on that plug no matter what.

 

[ShizNet]

dude... if your HD is sata - then your CD/DVD has to be connected to secondary IDE (not 0, but IDE-1)
and forgive me.. u spent more time here than reading that 20 page manual. the worse manual covers simple trouble shooting tips and order of drives and issues

 

[imported_Adonis]

I've got the system to the point where I CAN start the install of windows XP. THe process for getting xp to recognize the sata hdd is to press F6 right at the start. I tried with two different keyboards, and 2 different xp cd's, and when I press F6, nothing happens! I can press F2 to run the automated system recovery, but it jumps past F6 and goes on to tell me it can't recognize the mass storage drive type.

It's supposed to work, but's it's not ..

 

[mechBgon]

So it never prompts you to give it a floppy with the drivers on it? Or it does prompt for them, but then it doesn't find any controllers to use them on?

 

[imported_Adonis]

I believe it does prompt me for a floppy disk along the way, at that point I can either agree to the floppy, or press enter to continue with the installation process, after which it appears to install a bunch of raid/scsi files. I can get it to the very end right before it physically starts to install windows XP. Upon pressing install, it tells me it still can't recognize the drive and to press F3 to quit.

I don't think any kind of floppy came with my mobo, and nothing came with the drives for sure.

My answer may lie in the floppy, i dunno ..

 

[mechBgon]

Try throwing the Asus mobo CD into your working computer. It ought to have a menu that will generate a driver floppy that you can use for the installation. There are two SATA controllers, the VIA one in the southbridge (controlling ports SATA1 and SATA2) and the Promise controller (controlling PRI_SATA and SEC_SATA).

You might make the VIA SATA floppy first, plug the drive onto the VIA SATA controller, and use the VIA driver floppy and see how that goes. I hear different reports about what works and what doesn't. Myself, I'm happily ignorant of the SATA aspect here Good luck, at any rate

 

[imported_Adonis]

I've tried everything i can think of to get my comp to recognize my sata drive(s) with no avail. Tried both drives seperately, nothing. I downloaded the "Promise SATA378 Driver V1.00.0.26 for Windows 98SE/NT4.0/ME/2000/XP/2003" from asus and loaded the files onto a diskette for the installation to choose from, nothing. I continually run into the wall of the OS not recognizing the drive for what it is.

I'm completely out of options.

 

[mechBgon]

If I were going to suggest the easiest options, they would be:

1) get a PATA boot drive, or

2) get a mobo that can run SATA "natively" with no driver floppy whatsoever (nForce3/nForce4-based boards)


If you want to use the Raptor, then the only solution I know of is to

1. Enable the onboard Promise SATA controller in the mobo's BIOS
2. Set the Promise to its non-RAID mode, which I believe they call "IDE" mode, in the mobo's BIOS
3. Plug the drive into the mobo's PRI_SATA or SEC_SATA jack so it's on the Promise controller
4. Run the utility inside of this downloadable Zip file to make the "IDE-mode" driver floppy for the Promise (this is the non-RAID one)
5. Now take another run at Windows Setup with the F6 routine

~Holy convoluted procedures, Batman!