HELP!!! chaintech 150 problems

[Qu1cK]

Hi all,
i just purchased a chaintech nforce 150 board and a643200+

the damn thing wont go into windows or run anything i put in the cd rom

it starts up fine and asks how would i like to go into windows: safe, safe mode with netowrk and start windows normaly
doesnt matter which 1 i choose the screen goes black and retsarts and im back at square 1

it wont detect my cd rom drives in the bios

ahh im so fustrated!!

 

[mechBgon]

Go ahead and post all the specs you can think of, including your drives and so on. It sounds like you're trying to recycle your old Windows installation that's already on the hard drive, so let me start by urging you to put the drive back into your old rig and backing up any data that you want to keep, onto DVDs or CDs or something. Windows usually takes a dim view of new mobos unless they're strongly related to the previous mobo (like, nForce --> nForce2). So plan on a reinstallation.

As for it not seeing your optical drive, confirm that the drive has both its power and data cables plugged in (I don't know how many times I've forgotten to plug in one or the other myself ) and that the drive is not jumpered for the same setting (Master/Slave) as another drive on the same cable.

 

[Qu1cK]

well i replaced my asus k8v with the chaintech hoping for better oc'ing

ive notice it start 2 load windows but quickly restart like sum1's pushing the reset button

and i havent touched any of the jumpers on my optical drivers

 

[Qu1cK]

my specs r:
amd 3200+
2x512 corsair 3200c2pro
chaintech nforce 150
radeon 9800 pro
30 gig maxtor 72000rpm
80 gig mactor 72000rpm
lg dvd+cdrw combo
lg cd-rw
enermax psu 450

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Qu1cK
well i replaced my asus k8v with the chaintech hoping for better oc'ing

ive notice it start 2 load windows but quickly restart like sum1's pushing the reset button

and i havent touched any of the jumpers on my optical drivers

Yeah, that's Windows feeling because it's looking for a VIA IDE controller and not finding it anymore. If you have data you want to save, heave the other mobo in there and rescue it. Looks like a nice rig, so I hope you get the results you want

 

[Qu1cK]

heh thxs

but how can i reinstall windows.....the windows cd wont read from my optical drives

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Qu1cK
heh thxs

but how can i reinstall windows.....the windows cd wont read from my optical drives

And you already confirmed that you remembered the power and data cables, right? Next go into the BIOS and see if you can have it detect what's on the IDE channels. I haven't seen any boards recently that don't auto-detect opticals, but there's always something new

 

[Qu1cK]

the only thing it reads r my 2 hd's

and ya there hooked up right

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Qu1cK
the only thing it reads r my 2 hd's

and ya there hooked up right

Just as a fact-finding step, put the optical drives' IDE cable on the IDE port that the HDD's are using right now.

 

[Qu1cK]

yup that worked

for some reason nothing on my ide2 port works

i have my opticals on ide 1 and my hd's on ide 3

there all dectected now and it just seems like a quick reinstall away from working (knock on wood)

 

[mechBgon]

Does that mobo have a RAID controller on it? Maybe the opticals happened to be on the RAID controller's IDE port? RAID controllers usually don't have a clue what to do with optical drives, so I bet that's what happened.

 

[Qu1cK]

o well i got into windows, installed the mobo drivers, and boom after the restart i got tons of "windows failed to delay write" or something like that and it keeps crashing when i load it up just like b4

im about 2 give up on this mobo, im reinstalling windows again and gunna try and update the bios

 

[Qu1cK]

well i just reinstalled windows, update bios, installed nforce drivers and boom windows gets messed up and wont start