Plastik

Hello, I recently purchased this motherboard. I have it up and running, but was wondering about boot time. It takes forever to load to my OS. For boot order I have HDD first, and CD rom second.

Stats.

Gigabyte GA-K8NS Pro Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 2800
2X512 DDR 400 memory
GeForce FX 5500
WD 160 GB HDD

Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks.

mark3567

Hi,

When you purhased this motherboard, did you do a clean install of your OS with this motherboard, or did you bring the Hard Drive from another computer? \

Oh, by the way, I recommend that you put the boot order as CDRom first and Hard Drive second....some prefer the A: drive in there before the Hard Drive, but I don't do that. That is a personal preference.

Plastik

If i have CD first for boot order, it wants a boot disk, and goes around in circles till i put a cd in. Yes, I put a clean install on the HDD. Originally i had it in another computer, no OS on it though, just formatted through good old windows for storage. Thanks.

alkmie

I just bought this mother Board and it wont Boot windows???
It boot windows xp from cd normaly and copys all files to hard drive (seagate 120 ata 100 ide)

Then when computer reboots I get "Error loading Operating System"

Bios detects my hard drive
but when Gigaraid bios does a scan for ide's "NO IDES" detected?

Ived flashed my bios up to F4 and i still have the same problem

I disable gigaraid also but that didnt work

IM guessing MBR but y isnt it being created when i partition and install windows??

dmhogan2000

I know it sounds silly to post the same thing but Gentlemen I am having the same problem. Does anyone have a fix?

AMD ATHLON 64 2800+
GIGABYTE K8NS PRO
Seagate 80GB Model ST380021A
Nvidia Quadro2 MXR
(3) 512MB DDR 333 Ram total 1.5 GB

I can even get it to load Mandrake 10 with no problem but need to run XP!

Duckster1

I am going to ask a really dumb queston!
Is this XP home, XP pro, XP Pro corporate?
Why dont you go to www.bootdisk.com
and down load the boot disk!

What file system are you useing?
FAT 32 or NTFS?
If you FDISK, did you reformat?
if you did reformat, you probaly have a FAT 32!.
Go to bootdisk site and down load the appropiate boot disk,
you will need 6 formated 3 1/2 floppy disk for windows XP
Windows XP uses NTFS file system!
If you have some questons, feel free to e-mail me at laird@centurytel.net

darthbane666

hi, did anyone manage to find the problem as I to cannot install Xp home or Pro on this board. Windows 98 goes on no problem.
I just get the same problem as the guys above.

thanks for any help

mark3567

Hi,

For the all of you (it would be easier if you wrote your own problem and started your own thread), I would suggest the following:

Make sure your hard drive is on IDE #1 and set as master with the other drive on here set as slave on the jumpers.....Also, make sure the Master is on the END of the cable and the slave in the middle of the 80 pin cable (don't use a 40 pin cable).

Enter the BIOS setup menu and set your boot order to: CDRom, Floppy, and then your boot hard drive.

In the bios SETUP menu also set it to default settings....continue to next instruction.

Be sure your RAID is DISABLED in your BIOS and also make sure PnP is turned to DISABLED. (If you are using Win98, then leave PnP to ENABLED)

Save and Exit

When you put your OS disk in the computer and boot choose Format to NTSF, and then choose Install. (If you don't format and have an old drive, the chipset drivers from the old installation will keep it from working properly)

When you are done with the install....don't do anything else until you load the Chipset drivers from your CD for the motherboard.

Next, load your video drivers, then your modem drivers (don't use the XP modem drivers, load them from the disk or better yet from the modem manufacture's latest and best list), then last load your sound card drivers.

After you have done this, they should work..........