did i finally go too far??

[addinator]

my system specs are in my sig. i have had my comp. overclocked for quite a bit, and recently i have been getting a few blue screens. so i re installed all kinds of drivers (chipset, and otherwise) tried to update the bios, and everything else, and finally the computer got one last blue screen, and then rebooted. when it rebooted, i would get past the nforce 4 chipset screen, and past my bios screen, and it would say simply "error loading operating system." i tried again and again to reboot, went into the bios and took off my oc settings, and tried rebooting. still the same error. so finally, i went into raid options, and wiped the drives. got rid of the partitions, and now it shows two 80 gig drives in the raid utility. thats a bad thing, i think. so i've tried to format the drives, partition them, and then install windows on them. i go through the first part, get it installed, and it says "system will reboot now, and setup will resume on startup". well, i reboot, and it says "boot from disc" and the setup will start all over agin. (the boot from disc, is that i have the windows disc from the manufacturer in it to reinstall the os. it is windows xp, with sp2). i have no idea what to do now, and i would love some help. if this needs to be explained more clearly, please tell me, and i'll try again. any help would be appreciated.

 

[2kfire]

When it reboots and says boot from disc, try choosing not to... On some OEM setup discs, the setup files get copied to the hard drive, so when you reboot, it should just continue the setup from there. If you keep choosing boot from disc, it never boots from the HD and can't continue the setup. Hope this helps. If not, let us know

 

[addinator]

i have actually tried that before, by removing the cd and just letting it go to the hdd's, but it just hangs, and doesn't do anything. might it be that there is a problem with the hdd's that because they are in raid, and when i go into the raid setup option it shows two seperate hdd's with seperate partitions, and not one larger one? i'm really kinda lost on ideas at this point. might reseting the cmos switch help at all? and if so, how do i go about that?

 

[montag451]

to reset CMOS,
unplug the power cable.
look for the 'CLRCMOS' jumper and change if from 1-2 to 2-3 for a few seconds.
put it back.
plug in.
Should be reset