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BH2
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|  Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: cannot boot to OS |
| I would appreciate some advice please. After reading alot of material I
decided to build a computer. Using an EPox 9NDA3J Board, an AMD Athlon
3500+,
2 GB's of ram. 1x W/Digital IDE 320 gig HDD, 2 x W/Digital 320 gig SATA 2
HDD's, sound card, graphics card etc. Partitioned the Drive and Installed
windows Xp Home,( I made the IDE HDD Master and no Slave device) rebooted
the computer but I can't seem to get it to boot from the HDD with Xp on it,
which I assume is the IDE HDD.
During the initial POST Boot checks The Hdd's are detected as follows:
IDE Chan 0 Master WDC3200JB-OOKPA0
IDE Chan 0 Slave: None
detects both SATA drives as Sata 1 and Sata 2.
Then it gets to verifying DMI pool data, but will not go pas Boot From CD
I have set the BIOS Boot sequence as Follows:
HDD Boot priority is IDE HDD, Sata1, Sata2
CD Rom Priority is CH M DVD Ram Drive, CH S ATAPI CD-R/RW
Boot Sequence is:
1st Boot CDROM
2nd Boot HDD
3rd Boot HDD
I have installed window on the IDE Drive, everything went ok, until
I restarted windows, then it could not find the HDD and OS. I have set the
BIOS to boot from the HDD's before the CD Roms. I can access window by
booting from the CDRom with the Win Xp disc in it, and go to the repair
sequence at the end I am in C: Drive in windows. Under disc management I
can see the other two Sata drive but have not formatted them yet. I have
tried everything the Bios to no avail.hardware profile.
I have tried to contact epox through their website, but their published
email addy support@epox.com.tw does not work, seems to be the same for the
boards
Would really appreciate you help on this guys
Thanks and Regards
Bob |
| | Back to top | |  | Davy
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| | Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:40 am Post subject: Re: cannot boot to OS |
| First boot device should be set for HDD0 if only a single hard drive
is used., the others could be left disabled or set to 'whatever'
since we are not booting the computer from floppy or CD, we only set
CD as the first boot device when installing Xp onto the hard drive.
On Some mobos If using a single drive The Onboard H/W ATA/RAID should
be disabled if present in bios, checking the configuration links on
the HDD may also help.
See if these helps-:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000413.htm
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1778 page 3 may be
useful
Certainly sounds like a setting or configuration fault.
Davy |
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