my build consists of
asus m5a97 pro am3+ socket
amd phenom quad core black edition 965 (mother boards bios does support)
4 gig of adata ram single stick
ati radeon 6670 (hdmi)
MY problem I had xp installed by changing the ahci to ide or whatever then i had to install service pack 2 of win xp but it died at like 56% and killed the os i restarted and could not boot! i then tryed windows 7 on both a usb bootable and a dvd rw, the usb worked but would not get past unpacking windows 7 files i tryed 9 times and every time it got worse the first time it reached 100% before it froze i switched back from ide befre i tryed to insatll7 then i tryed linux off of a usb and it installed fully then reset to finnalize and then was no where to be seen on start up i just got put at the bios screen again and the hard drive would not load it up! so i formated and refreshed the hard drive again for like the 60th time in the last 12 hours then i tryed windows 98 and that also did not want to start so i tryed putting xp sp2 iso file onto a bootable usb using a program for it and it did not even load it up then i tryed it on a rw disk and it did not load up i have now forgoten everything i have changed in the bios and the hard drive will not even show up at bootup as a bootable drive and whenever i go back to my xp home edition sp1 install cd it says bootmanger cannot be found after i press any key to boot from cd! ive been having building this pc for 6 weeks now and for 2 of those weeks ive had hardware problems and now for the last 11 hours i have been sat at my computer with my kneck and eyes aching loosing a bit of patience every time those gremlins in my pc invent something to go wrong.... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HELP ME FIND A SOLUTION
asus m5a97 pro am3+ socket
amd phenom quad core black edition 965 (mother boards bios does support)
4 gig of adata ram single stick
ati radeon 6670 (hdmi)
MY problem I had xp installed by changing the ahci to ide or whatever then i had to install service pack 2 of win xp but it died at like 56% and killed the os i restarted and could not boot! i then tryed windows 7 on both a usb bootable and a dvd rw, the usb worked but would not get past unpacking windows 7 files i tryed 9 times and every time it got worse the first time it reached 100% before it froze i switched back from ide befre i tryed to insatll7 then i tryed linux off of a usb and it installed fully then reset to finnalize and then was no where to be seen on start up i just got put at the bios screen again and the hard drive would not load it up! so i formated and refreshed the hard drive again for like the 60th time in the last 12 hours then i tryed windows 98 and that also did not want to start so i tryed putting xp sp2 iso file onto a bootable usb using a program for it and it did not even load it up then i tryed it on a rw disk and it did not load up i have now forgoten everything i have changed in the bios and the hard drive will not even show up at bootup as a bootable drive and whenever i go back to my xp home edition sp1 install cd it says bootmanger cannot be found after i press any key to boot from cd! ive been having building this pc for 6 weeks now and for 2 of those weeks ive had hardware problems and now for the last 11 hours i have been sat at my computer with my kneck and eyes aching loosing a bit of patience every time those gremlins in my pc invent something to go wrong.... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HELP ME FIND A SOLUTION