Hello everyone,
I am not new to computers but I am new to building them. I just finished building my first system yesterday which took me most of the day. I have yet to get the computer operational which is why I am here.
Info on what is installed:
Antec Soho 1080 case with 550 watt power supply, gigabyte 8inxp motherboard, gigabyte 9700 pro video, creative labs audigy 2 sound card, 4 sticks of 512 MB corsair DDr 333 mhz RAM, Antec Harddrive cooler, Western Digital Caviar 8 MB Buffer 80GIG Hard drive, 4 sytstem fans, thermaltake 7 CPU cooler, and a Pentium 2.8 Processor. (all round IDE cables, swiched out to stock cables for troubleshooting)
I installed everything as per the motherbaord instructions the best I could understand. I started out with the DPS installed but it kept shutting down the computer after about 5 seconds into boot up. The DPS doesn't seem to fit in the slot firmly and tends to move side to side. When it shut down and restarted the screen went black and the case beeped rapidly. After I removed the DPS, the system was able to boot.
I don't know and can't understand what everything in the CMOS is. I did try a number of combinations with what boot devices to go first-third. Right now it is set to boot from floppy, then from hard drive, then from CD-rom. The problem I'm having right now is when I go to install windows XP Pro. I can make it through the partition and hard drive format, that all goes well. The problem is when it self-reboots after the format and goes to install windows files, it doesn't. It goes right back to the format portion of it and makes a continuous loop that way. I have gone into CMOS and checked on the hard drive and it recognizes it fine. If I click on the Hard Drive itself and tell CMOS to search for info on the Harddrive it makes all the info turn to zeros. I have checked cables numerous times and made sure the jumper is on master for the hard drive, which is the only one I have.
I don't know what the problem is here and can't for the life of me figure it out. I have gone through about 10 formats hoping I could get it right. During one installation when I messed with the CD popping it and out I got the installation to boot into windows. I thought I was all good, everything looked right. I went into device manager and read my settings just to see the P2.8 and 2.0 gig mem pop up there. I then proceeded to load my 9700 pro driver, all went good there. It prompted me to reboot so I did, then it all happened again. The boot up screen came, long boot up by the way, and then it said boot from CD, then again, then if I didn't have the windows XP disk in it it would say System boot disk error. If the CD was in it would start the format process all over again. The CD is known to be good because I installed on another computer last week.
I am in diar need of some guidance and information on how to properly set this system up. Do I have incompatible parts installed? Is one of my installed components shot already? Should I install the motherboard without the video and sound card first? What settings should I use to make these components run good and stable. I am not considering overclocking components just yet, I want to get the system stable and get it running good first. I am new at this so please talk to me like I'm an idiot ( you know what I mean, hehe). Any help would be appreciated and if you are running similar components I would like to hear from you. I am hoping someone on here has had similar problems and possibly a solution.
-Ryan
Paveslave@cox.net
I am not new to computers but I am new to building them. I just finished building my first system yesterday which took me most of the day. I have yet to get the computer operational which is why I am here.
Info on what is installed:
Antec Soho 1080 case with 550 watt power supply, gigabyte 8inxp motherboard, gigabyte 9700 pro video, creative labs audigy 2 sound card, 4 sticks of 512 MB corsair DDr 333 mhz RAM, Antec Harddrive cooler, Western Digital Caviar 8 MB Buffer 80GIG Hard drive, 4 sytstem fans, thermaltake 7 CPU cooler, and a Pentium 2.8 Processor. (all round IDE cables, swiched out to stock cables for troubleshooting)
I installed everything as per the motherbaord instructions the best I could understand. I started out with the DPS installed but it kept shutting down the computer after about 5 seconds into boot up. The DPS doesn't seem to fit in the slot firmly and tends to move side to side. When it shut down and restarted the screen went black and the case beeped rapidly. After I removed the DPS, the system was able to boot.
I don't know and can't understand what everything in the CMOS is. I did try a number of combinations with what boot devices to go first-third. Right now it is set to boot from floppy, then from hard drive, then from CD-rom. The problem I'm having right now is when I go to install windows XP Pro. I can make it through the partition and hard drive format, that all goes well. The problem is when it self-reboots after the format and goes to install windows files, it doesn't. It goes right back to the format portion of it and makes a continuous loop that way. I have gone into CMOS and checked on the hard drive and it recognizes it fine. If I click on the Hard Drive itself and tell CMOS to search for info on the Harddrive it makes all the info turn to zeros. I have checked cables numerous times and made sure the jumper is on master for the hard drive, which is the only one I have.
I don't know what the problem is here and can't for the life of me figure it out. I have gone through about 10 formats hoping I could get it right. During one installation when I messed with the CD popping it and out I got the installation to boot into windows. I thought I was all good, everything looked right. I went into device manager and read my settings just to see the P2.8 and 2.0 gig mem pop up there. I then proceeded to load my 9700 pro driver, all went good there. It prompted me to reboot so I did, then it all happened again. The boot up screen came, long boot up by the way, and then it said boot from CD, then again, then if I didn't have the windows XP disk in it it would say System boot disk error. If the CD was in it would start the format process all over again. The CD is known to be good because I installed on another computer last week.
I am in diar need of some guidance and information on how to properly set this system up. Do I have incompatible parts installed? Is one of my installed components shot already? Should I install the motherboard without the video and sound card first? What settings should I use to make these components run good and stable. I am not considering overclocking components just yet, I want to get the system stable and get it running good first. I am new at this so please talk to me like I'm an idiot ( you know what I mean, hehe). Any help would be appreciated and if you are running similar components I would like to hear from you. I am hoping someone on here has had similar problems and possibly a solution.
-Ryan
Paveslave@cox.net
If your Western Digital drive is on a cable by itself, make sure to set its jumper to the Single Drive position shown on its label. This is often the cause of long boots and may be causing your endless-loop situation with WinXP as well.
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