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Anonymous   01-08-2009 at 02:17:50 AM

Well I just finshed building my first PC. I got all my stuff from tiger direct. I turned the computer on for the very first time and all of my components were reconized. I put my vista 64 bit OEM into the cd-rom and it started to load. I got the windows loading files screen, then it goes to a blue screen and nothing happens.. I don't think this is a software issue because I tried my wifes vista 32 cd that came with her laptop. I get to the exact same spot and nothing...

what the hell am I doing wrong.

I have my harddrive set to SATA1. and my cd-rom is IDE slave...

I really wanna get this thing fired up.. any help would be greatly apperiated. and to add I will mail someone a brand new thermal take cpu cooler if they get me in the right direction.

thanks.

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4ryan6   01-08-2009 at 02:43:55 PM
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When you say CDROM do you have the set of CD installation disks, or the installation DVD, needing either a DVDROM or DVDRW to be able to install from?

 


In the BIOS setup:
Make sure the boot sequence is set to first boot CDROM, second boot HDD.

 

And the SATA1 header is set to work as IDE.

 

Listing your exact specs would help?

 
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and my cd-rom is IDE slave...

 

If its the only thing on the IDE header set it as Master, connect to the end of the cable.


Message edited by 4ryan6 on 01-08-2009 at 02:47:05 PM
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notherdude   01-08-2009 at 03:00:55 PM
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hmmm . . as Ryan notes it appears you have an IDE CD drive set to slave though it is the only IDE device on the controller? Set it to master then.

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