Help: Installing New Hard Drive & OS on HP 7955

I have an HP Pavilion 7955 that didn't have a hard drive, so I put in
a 164G Serial-ATA Hitachi Deskstar(HDT722516DLA380). There is a light
blue 40-pin connector on the motherboard that has a small PCB plugged
into it that allows the
use of a SATA drive with the motherboard. And the drive is the only
one on it's cable.

I want to try to install XP from a DVD. But the screen that shows the
boot order is as follows:

Boot Device Priority
--------------------
CD-ROM Drive
+Removable Drives
+Hard Drive
Network Boot

Though the DVD drive is found by the BIOS, it doesn't show at all in
that Boot Priority screen.

Is there a way to get the DVD-ROM drive into this list?

The CD-ROM and DVD-Rom are on a single cable with it terminating at
the CD-ROM.

Thanks.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

At the BIOS level, most motherboards cannot tell the difference between a CD-ROM
drive and a DVD-capable drive. Boot from the "CD-ROM drive". If the system
still does not allow booting from DVD, switch the CD- and DVD-ROM devices
physically in the chassis, along with switching the cable connectors. If the
drives are both jumpered as CS (cable select), which HP usually does, that ought
to do it... Ben Myers

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:11:40 -0800 (PST), Searcher7 <Searcher7@mail.con2.com>
wrote:

>I have an HP Pavilion 7955 that didn't have a hard drive, so I put in
>a 164G Serial-ATA Hitachi Deskstar(HDT722516DLA380). There is a light
>blue 40-pin connector on the motherboard that has a small PCB plugged
>into it that allows the
>use of a SATA drive with the motherboard. And the drive is the only
>one on it's cable.
>
>I want to try to install XP from a DVD. But the screen that shows the
>boot order is as follows:
>
>Boot Device Priority
>--------------------
>CD-ROM Drive
>+Removable Drives
>+Hard Drive
>Network Boot
>
>Though the DVD drive is found by the BIOS, it doesn't show at all in
>that Boot Priority screen.
>
>Is there a way to get the DVD-ROM drive into this list?
>
>The CD-ROM and DVD-Rom are on a single cable with it terminating at
>the CD-ROM.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Darren Harris
>Staten Island, New York.

On Nov 22, 3:49 pm, Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_...@charter.net>
wrote:
> At the BIOS level, most motherboards cannot tell the difference between a CD-ROM
> drive and a DVD-capable drive. Boot from the "CD-ROM drive". If the system
> still does not allow booting from DVD, switch the CD- and DVD-ROM devices
> physically in the chassis, along with switching the cable connectors. If the
> drives are both jumpered as CS (cable select), which HP usually does, that ought
> to do it... Ben Myers
>
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:11:40 -0800 (PST), Searcher7 <Search...@mail.con2.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> >I have an HP Pavilion 7955 that didn't have a hard drive, so I put in
> >a 164G Serial-ATA Hitachi Deskstar(HDT722516DLA380). There is a light
> >blue 40-pin connector on the motherboard that has a small PCB plugged
> >into it that allows the
> >use of a SATA drive with the motherboard. And the drive is the only
> >one on it's cable.
>
> >I want to try to install XP from a DVD. But the screen that shows the
> >boot order is as follows:
>
> >Boot Device Priority
> >--------------------
> >CD-ROM Drive
> >+Removable Drives
> >+Hard Drive
> >Network Boot
>
> >Though the DVD drive is found by the BIOS, it doesn't show at all in
> >that Boot Priority screen.
>
> >Is there a way to get the DVD-ROM drive into this list?
>
> >The CD-ROM and DVD-Rom are on a single cable with it terminating at
> >the CD-ROM.
>
> >Thanks.
>
> >Darren Harris
> >Staten Island, New York.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

The DVD-ROM didn't have the the pin position info on the case, but
thankfully the CD-ROM did. So I just took a chance and assumed they
were the same.(They were both on "Cable Select").

I switched them around and made the DVD-ROM the "Master" and the CD-
ROM the "slave", but that did not work, so I completely disconnected
the CD-ROM and it worked. The Windows XP set-up started. After the
couple hour installation(which had it's own set of road-blocks) I re-
connected the CD-ROM(as the slave), and at the moment everything
seems
to be working.(Including the little adaptor that lets the SATA drive
work on this IDE motherboard).

Thanks a lot.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:49:52 -0500, Ben Myers <ben_myers_spam_me_not@charter.net> wrote:

>At the BIOS level, most motherboards cannot tell the difference between a CD-ROM
>drive and a DVD-capable drive. Boot from the "CD-ROM drive". If the system
>still does not allow booting from DVD, switch the CD- and DVD-ROM devices
>physically in the chassis, along with switching the cable connectors. If the
>drives are both jumpered as CS (cable select), which HP usually does, that ought
>to do it... Ben Myers

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>On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:11:40 -0800 (PST), Searcher7 <Searcher7@mail.con2.com>
>wrote:
>
>>I have an HP Pavilion 7955 that didn't have a hard drive, so I put in
>>a 164G Serial-ATA Hitachi Deskstar(HDT722516DLA380). There is a light
>>blue 40-pin connector on the motherboard that has a small PCB plugged
>>into it that allows the
>>use of a SATA drive with the motherboard. And the drive is the only
>>one on it's cable.
>>
>>I want to try to install XP from a DVD. But the screen that shows the
>>boot order is as follows:
>>
>>Boot Device Priority
>>--------------------
>>CD-ROM Drive
>>+Removable Drives
>>+Hard Drive
>>Network Boot
>>
>>Though the DVD drive is found by the BIOS, it doesn't show at all in
>>that Boot Priority screen.
>>
>>Is there a way to get the DVD-ROM drive into this list?
>>
>>The CD-ROM and DVD-Rom are on a single cable with it terminating at
>>the CD-ROM.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Darren Harris
>>Staten Island, New York.

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