hi,
just built my first computer last night. went smoothly enoguh until i tried to install my os. it's not working.
first off, here's my specs: soyo dragon plus, xp 1700+, 2 x 60GB maxtor hdd in raid 0, 512 MB 2100 ddr, liteon 163, mitsumi 4804te, and i think evrything else shouldn't concern my problem.
so here's what i did from the get go.
1) built computer
2) flashed the bios to the latest version
3) setup the bios (enabled raid, disabled onboard sound)
4) set up my aid array
5) put in my winxp cd, restarted.
6) the winxp setup screen booted, and i began to do that, but it couldn't detect my hard drives, so i was forced to restart.
7) popped in my win98 bootdisk. fdisked my drive. made a primary position of the maximum space - and it only made a single partition of about 52GB instead of ~120GB.
8) format C:
9) rebooted. winxp cd in the liteon drive. and it hangs after verifying dmi pool table. doesn't attempt to read the cd drives at all.
10) so then i rebooted again, and with my win98 bootdisk i deleted the primary partition. and rebooted again, but it still hagns after verifying dmi pool data. it will attempt to read floppies if i have any in the drive, but no cds.
my boot sequence in bios is: floppy, hdd 0, ls120. i tried putting the cdrom first, but there was no difference. tried it with my other drive too (4804te) but still nothing.
anyone know what's wrong, or how to fix it?
many thanks in advance!
just built my first computer last night. went smoothly enoguh until i tried to install my os. it's not working.
first off, here's my specs: soyo dragon plus, xp 1700+, 2 x 60GB maxtor hdd in raid 0, 512 MB 2100 ddr, liteon 163, mitsumi 4804te, and i think evrything else shouldn't concern my problem.
so here's what i did from the get go.
1) built computer
2) flashed the bios to the latest version
3) setup the bios (enabled raid, disabled onboard sound)
4) set up my aid array
5) put in my winxp cd, restarted.
6) the winxp setup screen booted, and i began to do that, but it couldn't detect my hard drives, so i was forced to restart.
7) popped in my win98 bootdisk. fdisked my drive. made a primary position of the maximum space - and it only made a single partition of about 52GB instead of ~120GB.
8) format C:
9) rebooted. winxp cd in the liteon drive. and it hangs after verifying dmi pool table. doesn't attempt to read the cd drives at all.
10) so then i rebooted again, and with my win98 bootdisk i deleted the primary partition. and rebooted again, but it still hagns after verifying dmi pool data. it will attempt to read floppies if i have any in the drive, but no cds.
my boot sequence in bios is: floppy, hdd 0, ls120. i tried putting the cdrom first, but there was no difference. tried it with my other drive too (4804te) but still nothing.
anyone know what's wrong, or how to fix it?
many thanks in advance!
