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Raptoot
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 Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:18 am Post subject: New computer not booting |
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Greetings all
looking for a little help and advice regarding a computer i've built,
as it's not booting from any of the drives.
I'll try to go into great detail about what may need to be known, if
anyone requires any more detail, please don't hesitate to ask.
The motherboard is an AOpen DX34 Plus-U dual processor motherbaord. It
currently has 2x P3 1ghz processors in it.
The problem i'm having is that it seems no matter what i try, i always
get the same message "Insert system disk and press enter key to reboot"
I've looked at the setup menu and it seems to be auto-detecting all of
my drives just fine.
I've tried booting from a Hard drive with an existing Windows
Partition, i've tried booting from a bootable Windows XP install disk,
and i've tried booting MSDos from a floppy.
I've attempted to change the boot sequence, although i'm pretty sure
that would make no difference.
I took the Lithium battery out of the motherboard, briefly and placed
it back in, in the hope that it would reset the BIOS and consequently
remove any corruption, but to no avail.
All my wires appear to be plugged in correctly.
The boot log doesn't pick up any errors, and only informed me that the
BIOS had been reset.
However the RAID utility doesn't load, the screen just goes blank and
the computer freezes.
The boot options menu is relatively blank, but if i press <Del> to go
from there to Setup (rather than just going straight to setup from the
initial startup) it also doesn't load, the screen once again just goes
blank and freezes.
Any constructive input would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
Raptoot |
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jmc
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject: Re: New computer not booting |
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Suddenly, without warning, Raptoot exclaimed (12-Dec-06 4:48 AM):
| Quote: | Greetings all
looking for a little help and advice regarding a computer i've built,
as it's not booting from any of the drives.
I'll try to go into great detail about what may need to be known, if
anyone requires any more detail, please don't hesitate to ask.
The motherboard is an AOpen DX34 Plus-U dual processor motherbaord. It
currently has 2x P3 1ghz processors in it.
The problem i'm having is that it seems no matter what i try, i always
get the same message "Insert system disk and press enter key to reboot"
I've looked at the setup menu and it seems to be auto-detecting all of
my drives just fine.
I've tried booting from a Hard drive with an existing Windows
Partition, i've tried booting from a bootable Windows XP install disk,
and i've tried booting MSDos from a floppy.
I've attempted to change the boot sequence, although i'm pretty sure
that would make no difference.
I took the Lithium battery out of the motherboard, briefly and placed
it back in, in the hope that it would reset the BIOS and consequently
remove any corruption, but to no avail.
All my wires appear to be plugged in correctly.
The boot log doesn't pick up any errors, and only informed me that the
BIOS had been reset.
However the RAID utility doesn't load, the screen just goes blank and
the computer freezes.
The boot options menu is relatively blank, but if i press <Del> to go
from there to Setup (rather than just going straight to setup from the
initial startup) it also doesn't load, the screen once again just goes
blank and freezes.
Any constructive input would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards
Raptoot
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Ok, basic stuff first. Did you check to make sure there isn't a CD/DVD
in an optical drive, a disc in the floppy drive if you have one, or a
USB device plugged in that might be mistaken for a boot device?
Also, if your drives are SATA, make sure you're using the right SATA
connectors. Had a similar problem, and it turned out that the drivers
for one set of SATA connectors was old on my ASUS mobo. Switched them
to the other set of SATA connectors and all was well...
Boot options blanking/freezing is of a bit of concern, though. What are
your possible boot devices, and which ones are brand new? It's possible
you have something that's DOA - in which case you should try swapping
out with known-good, or if everything's SATA, try an IDE HD with an OS
on it just to see if it'll work.
And if you haven't tried, you should create a boot floppy or CD (BartPE
I'm told works well), and see if you can get it to boot from that.
Hope this helps!
jmc |
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