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Problems Building PC - HELP

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Dave Hughes

Junior Member
Hey I have just bought a new PC system

These are the main specs

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Dual Core Processor, Socket 939, Toledo Core
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI S939, ATX, FSB2000, PCIEx16, DUAL DDR400, SATA, RAID, AC97, LAN
GIGABYTE GV-RX80L512V ATI RADEON X800XL, 512MB, 256bit, PCIE, DDRIII, TVOUT
VIDEOIN, 2DVI, TWINV
Western Digital WD2000JB/ PB Caviar 7200RPM ATA100 200Gb 8M cache
LG GSA-4167BBK Dual Layer 16x DVD+R/ -R/ RW/ RAM/ DL Writer

I have put it all together, I have windows XP Pro 64 bit version and am running into major hurdles. It boots all the start screen stuff really slowly even when trying to go into bios setting straight away. After I installed windows on the C: drive (my only partition for now) it seems to install fine but it isn't detecting my harddrive and keeps trying to boot from the CD.. I have no idea what my problem could be andone have ideas?

Cheers

Dave
 
Have you gone into BIOS and changed the boot order of the devices so that the hard drive is at the top of the listing ?

Edit: Dave:

If this is your first attempt at building a system, you need to make sure that you carefully read ALL of the writeups that come with ALL of your hardward components, especially the motherboard owners manual. Read that manual about 2 times and then go back and read it again. You need to be sure that all of the BIOS settings are correct BEFORE you do the installation of your operating system.

Good luck.



 
The boot order is Floppy - Hard Disk - CD ROM... It is my second system and I had no real problems with the first system...

I have got no idea as to why it isn't booting from the hard drive when I restart and wont go into windows even with the Windows disk in the drive just trys to reinstall or repair..
 
Well now that is more interesting.

Have you tried putting the floppy last ?

Also, have you tried setting the BIOS back to defaults ?
 
Also how to you have the drives arranged.

Do you have the hard drive on primary IDE and jumped as master ?

Do you have the CD drive on secondary IDE and jumped ALSO as master ?
 
nope havent messed around with it too much ..... have tried bios on default and no go just the same problem..

All the start up stuff seems to be running mega slow. Just doesnt seem right for the power that it has...

 
Ok the drives are arranged Hard drive on primary IDE jumped as master and the CD Drive also on primary but jumped as slave..

They are getting detected as that on the start up screen...
 
Try putting the CD on secondary and jump it as master.

After that, have you tried resetting the CMOS via motherboard jumper ?
 
Any idea which jumper is master on and LG dvd... dont wanna have to sepnd ages trying to get it out of this fiddly case set up...
 
Originally posted by: Dave Hughes
Any idea which jumper is master on and LG dvd... dont wanna have to sepnd ages trying to get it out of this fiddly case set up...
Click to expand...

See if you can put your flash light on it so you can see the legend.

 
Ok that hasn't changed anything...

Still get the "Boot Disk Failure Insert system disk and hit enter"

What is bothering me just as much is the slow speed.. It sits there for over a minute on the very first screen the starts to detect IDE devices then find them both then takes another minute to go the nest next screen which says hasn't located any raid arrays raid disable then goes to the PCI page and verifies DMI or some crap for like 2-3 mins then finally gives me the boot failure..

Is annoying...
 
On your Western Digital ATA100 drive, remove the jumper cap from the jumper pins and leave it off. That is the Single Master setting, which is different from regular Master. The symptoms you describe sound like what happens when a WD is on its own cable but isn't jumpered for Single Master.
 
Mechbgon:

Is it possible that he has some obsecure parameter in the BIOS set incorrectly, something related to the order in which it seeks various categories of disks or is there a parameter relating to RAID that he should reset ?

 
Thanks heaps guys.... mechBgon was right just had to romove the jumper cap and leave it off and its working great now fast and reliable... Now just have to wait for my 2 gig of ram to arrive tomorrow and im set...

Thanks heaps fellas and good thinking mechBgon....


Cheers

Dave
 
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