Installation coruption issue on my new comp.

[Smurfwow]

Heyas,

I just finished puttin my new comp together... it posted on my first attempt.. i was happy indeed

Only 2 problems i've discoverd so far.. which is'nt bad at all. Firstly the floppy dirve is'nt working...

but the main problem I'm having is when I try to install win2k.

It boot's from the win2k cd, and i formatted using the win2k setup formatting tool. But when I go install it, a few of the files are corrupted. I press enter and it retires, after about 4 retries it appears to work, and continues on copying the files. When it's finished I get setup.ini is corrupt and setup cannot continue. Then when i reboot I get the same corruption error when it boots from the hdd.

*** I just tried it agian, and although i got the corrupt files during the copying of setup files, I can now get to the installation screen ***



Because I only have 1 ata/100 cable, and because of the way the case i have is designed, I have to set the cd-rw as master, and the hdd as slave. Would this be the most likely cause of this? or is it just something like a bad(scratched mabye) cd?

 

[Slikkster]

Personally, I'd never put the cdrw and hard drive on the same controller, and even if I did, I wouldn't put the hard disk as a slave to the cdrw.

I'd do one of a couple of things:

Get a normal 40-wire ide cable for the cdrw and put it on an ide controller on the motherboard vs. the ATA-100 controller. They can both be masters on their separate controllers.

I'd also try to just copy the CD files to the hard drive and install from the hard drive.

You may be running into huge timing differences by having a much slower cdrw on the same controller as the much faster hard drive.

Also, sounds like your Floppy drive cable is attached incorrectly. Make sure the red stripe on the cable is attached to both pin 1 on the floppy and pin 1 on the motherboard floppy controller. Frequently, you'll find that the red stripe on the floppy appears reversed compared to the red stripe orientation on hard drives/cdrom/ide drives. Check the bios, too, to make sure the Floppy drive is enabled there.

 

[stingbandel]

slikster is right. Don't put anything with hdd especially ata 100. I did that before and the performance was really slow. You need to set ata 100 cable with the hdd only. then like he said get a new cable the regular one for the ata 33 one for cd rw.


Darno

 

[Smurfwow]

ok thanks for the advice guys.

First thing tomorrow i'll go out and buy another ide cable. you'd think they could have just thrown in another measily 50cent ide cable ... sheesh... all i got was 1 ide and 1 floppy cable :/

in all the excitment of owning a 1.33ghz tbird/geforce3, i have probobly forgot quite a few things i ussually would'nt
just could'nt wait to hit the old quake3 arena

Can i put an ata/100 cable into a cdrw, or are they reserved for hdd's only?

 

[Smurfwow]

turns out the floppy pins were'nt aligned as you said, thanks agiian