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Mikola · 04-22-2007, 02:54 AM

Hi, I finally decided to get a new computer after 4-5 years of using a bad HP pre-built so I decided to order parts and build it myself. Bear in mind that I know nothing about the actual setup of a fresh computer.

Specs:
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16813131071
Intel Core 2 Duo e6400 http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16819115004
DVD Drive is a Samsung SD-616
HDD is a 200gb Western Digital (ex-slave drive to my old computer, I wiped it to use as the master drive)
The DVD and HDD are from my old computer, so they work, I know that.

The problem is that when I go to boot the computer up, I can access the BIOS and change settings in there. The only things I have changed are the boot order. But that's as far as the computer will boot basically. I have arranged the drives on the IDE cable as HDD master with ODD slave, I have done the vice versa of ODD master with HDD slave.

I have even purchased an I/O Flex Ultra ATA/133 PCI Raid Controller(Model: IOFLEX-PIR133) to use when I fully transfer from old computer to this new one because my ODDs and HDDs are IDE connected while the motherboard only has one connector(for the HDDs). I mention this because when I first tried to boot the computer to install the OS and such, I had my HDD on the PCI Raid controller and the ODD on the IDE controller on the motherboard. That didn't work, so I changed them and put the HDD on the IDE controller and the ODD on the PCI Raid controller. That didn't work either.

I don't know which settup got me the furthest, but I have gotten errors such as "NTLDR is missing" which is because where is no OS. I have gotten "Disk Boot Error: Please use a boot disk" or whatever it said, but when I put the XP Installer DVD into the DVD drive, it would not read. And then my most prevelant problem is just a black screen with the cursor blinking in the top left corner.

All of these errors are after the initial screen when you start the computer and the BIOS boots and offers you to enter the setup. I can't get any farther than that.

[Edit]
My friend who was trying to help me earlier tonight over the internet(it's much harder not being able to see the hardware in this situation, right?) was asking me if there were any beeps and I told them that the only beep was right before the cpu fan turns on. and I just looked in the BIOS alarm beep sticky thread and according to it(the BIOS is a Phoenix build, completely unupdated though because I can't even get past that) that one beep means that everything is normal and fine. So my only guess is something is seriously wrong.

04-22-2007, 02:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
Mikola Registered User Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 11 OS: XP	PC will not boot, help.. Hi, I finally decided to get a new computer after 4-5 years of using a bad HP pre-built so I decided to order parts and build it myself. Bear in mind that I know nothing about the actual setup of a fresh computer. Specs: Asus P5N32-SLI Premium http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16813131071 Intel Core 2 Duo e6400 http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16819115004 DVD Drive is a Samsung SD-616 HDD is a 200gb Western Digital (ex-slave drive to my old computer, I wiped it to use as the master drive) The DVD and HDD are from my old computer, so they work, I know that. The problem is that when I go to boot the computer up, I can access the BIOS and change settings in there. The only things I have changed are the boot order. But that's as far as the computer will boot basically. I have arranged the drives on the IDE cable as HDD master with ODD slave, I have done the vice versa of ODD master with HDD slave. I have even purchased an I/O Flex Ultra ATA/133 PCI Raid Controller(Model: IOFLEX-PIR133) to use when I fully transfer from old computer to this new one because my ODDs and HDDs are IDE connected while the motherboard only has one connector(for the HDDs). I mention this because when I first tried to boot the computer to install the OS and such, I had my HDD on the PCI Raid controller and the ODD on the IDE controller on the motherboard. That didn't work, so I changed them and put the HDD on the IDE controller and the ODD on the PCI Raid controller. That didn't work either. I don't know which settup got me the furthest, but I have gotten errors such as "NTLDR is missing" which is because where is no OS. I have gotten "Disk Boot Error: Please use a boot disk" or whatever it said, but when I put the XP Installer DVD into the DVD drive, it would not read. And then my most prevelant problem is just a black screen with the cursor blinking in the top left corner. All of these errors are after the initial screen when you start the computer and the BIOS boots and offers you to enter the setup. I can't get any farther than that. [Edit] My friend who was trying to help me earlier tonight over the internet(it's much harder not being able to see the hardware in this situation, right?) was asking me if there were any beeps and I told them that the only beep was right before the cpu fan turns on. and I just looked in the BIOS alarm beep sticky thread and according to it(the BIOS is a Phoenix build, completely unupdated though because I can't even get past that) that one beep means that everything is normal and fine. So my only guess is something is seriously wrong. Last edited by Mikola; 04-22-2007 at 03:13 AM.