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| Thread ID: 53496 | 2005-01-19 07:18:00 | cant load an OS | kevp (6914) | Press F1 |
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| 315740 | 2005-01-19 07:18:00 | just got in my order from zipzoomfly friday. MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (939), Athlon64 3500+, Zalman CNPS7000B-CU Pure Copper CPU Cooler Zalman ZM400B-APS 400W Power Supply Patriot PDC1G3200+XBLK 1GB Kit DDR400 PC3200, western digital caviar IDE 80 gig w/ 8mb buffer ATI radeon 9800 pro Put everything together, flashed the bios to the latest version. formatted through win98 floppy and then the fun begins. it lets me get all the way through the MS-DOS portion of install and prompts for the re-boot. when it boots again it doesn't detect the install and i get the "missing operating system". so i tried an older hard drive that i knew was working, formated it etc.... got to the re-boot on install and it's the same old same old. tried fdisk/mbr because i read somewhere that may do it. nothing. i've fdisk'd and re-formatted both drives i tested (new one and old one) about ten times and each time its the same. could i have bad ram? the CPU is running steady at around 120 farenheight btw. please help me! i bought all this stuff via the internet so returns have to be fed ex'd. i need to know the source of my problem! PS - ive tried installing 3 different OS. win98, win2k and winxp |
kevp (6914) | ||
| 315741 | 2005-01-19 07:36:00 | check the jumpers on the hard drives. check that the bios settings are not setup to "prevent writing to MBR" or "virus protect" these things can stoip a OS from installing. sounds like its a settings issue and not a hardware thing. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 315742 | 2005-01-19 07:39:00 | Put everything together, flashed the bios to the latest version. there is your 1st mistake, why did you flash the bois? |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 315743 | 2005-01-19 07:48:00 | Nothing wrong with flashing a BIOS. Its when it doesnt boot again u have a prob. If it doesnt flash properly. How r you trying to install windows Kev?? Booting from CD / Have u changed the bootdisk to the CD? And what version of Windows are you installing? By the sounds of it, you're installing it wrong. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 315744 | 2005-01-19 07:52:00 | what i meant was,he hasnt even loaded an os so he doesnt know that there problems. he was lucky,[edit:he may be lucky] oh well are the ide calbes the right way around? |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 315745 | 2005-01-19 07:52:00 | Whats "wrong" with flashing the bios is that he hadn't made certain the board even worked before doing so, And now he has an issue and one would have to look at the flash as a possible cause. | Metla (12) | ||
| 315746 | 2005-01-19 07:59:00 | True but if it wasnt the right flash well "sometimes" it tells you. BUT then if it was a bad flash, I would say it wld be dead as. You wouldnt get anything. Not even a screen. Or post. Oh well, we'll soon find out :@@: |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 315747 | 2005-01-19 18:35:00 | there is your 1st mistake, why did you flash the bois? i flashed it because nothing else was working that i tried. i spent a couple days trouble shooting before i flashed. and flashing it didnt change the outcome of what is happening. i will try and go through the bios for the virus protection and mbr protection. thanks for the help guys. |
kevp (6914) | ||
| 315748 | 2005-01-19 18:44:00 | Nothing wrong with flashing a BIOS. Its when it doesnt boot again u have a prob. If it doesnt flash properly. How r you trying to install windows Kev?? Booting from CD / Have u changed the bootdisk to the CD? And what version of Windows are you installing? By the sounds of it, you're installing it wrong. I am using a win98 floppy to boot to dos and i am partitioning and formatting through fdisk. |
kevp (6914) | ||
| 315749 | 2005-01-19 19:04:00 | Try manually setting the HDD in the BIOS to use LBA. | wintertide (1306) | ||
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