OMG NO AIEEEEE, MY computer i built ain't working :(

[Stiler]

Argh......it detects everything i have installed, hard drive, dvd drive, I don't have a floppy drive on it. It gets to where its going to start up and its detecting things then it just goes to this screen that says "push any key to restart" and no matter what i do it keeps doing that, i even have tried to make it boot frist from the dvd drive that i have a windows disk in, nooooooo, someone help, pleaseeeeee -

system info-
Asus p4s333 mobo
seagate IV 80gig set as primary master
lite on 16x dvd set as secondary master

i'm running out of all ideas here, it detects the processor fine, the hd, the dvd drive and the 512mb ddr ram. :frown:

 

[minendo]

When it tells you to reboot, do you remove the floppy disk?

 

[datalink7]

I seem to recall one computer I built wouldn't boot without a floppy drive installed for some reason. Go buy a cheap used one for $5-10 and see if that works.

 

[Stiler]

I don't have a floppy disk drive.....Just the HD and dvd drive.

 

[Maetryx]

Check the BIOS settings for Boot Order. Make it be CD-ROM for the first boot device and HDD-0 for the second. Disable the floppy port, and make sure you don't have a 3-1/2 or 5-1/4 chosen on the main BIOS screen.

 

[Stiler]

is there anyway i can get it to STAY in the "detection" screen , it goes to the "push any key to reboot" so fast taht i can't see what it detects and what it don't.

 

[Maetryx]

The PAUSE key actually does that.

 

[Cyberian]

Originally posted by: Stiler
is there anyway i can get it to STAY in the "detection" screen , it goes to the "push any key to reboot" so fast taht i can't see what it detects and what it don't.

Control + Break used to work on some older systems I worked on.

 

[CarpeDeo]

Is the hard drive brand new? Has it been fdisked? If not, there's no way command will even know that a C drive exists . . . as for booting from DVD- that should work. What Windows CD is it? I know that some earlier ones aren't bootable CD's.

 

[KennyTheGreat]

hmm, yes, try disablin the floopy port

 

[saftey]

I'll give you a floppy if you pay postage or live by me.

 

[akiraxtc]

Most likely you do not set an active partition for anything to boot from.

 

[Stiler]

i tried disabling everything that had floppy in it and setting it to boot from dvd, then hd, and it still does it, the hard drive it new so it hasn't had anything on it...how do i set a boot partition?