Darren2008

Just built my first pc, had a few teething problems pre bios, but eventually got to bios screen, first of all both my dvd drive and hard drive were seen in standard settings, moved into advanced and set my dvd drive as priority then hard drive, enabled my usb's saved and rebooted.
Windows XP service pack Home edition setup started, untill it got to a section about partitions, then it told me unknown disk in this drive, this was in a window in which it was repeated four times, your option was to quit, install the highlighted partition or delete partition.
I pressed continue, then that dreaded blue screen **stop 0X00000050 was the fault, something about the no page error, and lots more numbers.
Just to double check I went into bios after reboot and noticed it was only showing my dvd drive not the hard drive, the same on advanced setting, if I turned the computer off and removed power lead and rebooted it would come back, but get the same fault through windows again, check bios again gone, whats going on Help!!!!

Tumbleweed36

Try clearing your cmos as a first step. You can do that by either moving the jumper from pins 1 & 2 to pins 2 & 3 for a few minutes and then moving them back. You can also do that by removing the motherboard battery for a few. See if this gets you so you can get set up again to reinstall the OS.

If you can then get to the bios, go to the Boot area and set it up as:

Cdrom/Dvd drive - 1st (the main one you want to use to load windows)
Floppy - 2nd
Hard Drive - 3rd

Then, migrate on down to the Hard Drive priority and set the hard drive as FIRST in that area. (this would be the drive you want to boot from)

Don't forget to save before you exit and be sure to unplug and ground yourself before clearing that cmos.