New System Build
Case: Antec 900 w/associated cooling fans
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R Version 2.0 Bios F9
PSU: BFG 850w
CPU: Intel Quad Core Q6700
Cooling: Arctic Freezer 7 Pro
HD: Seagate SATA 750 GB
(SATA cable hooked up in SATAII0)
DVD: Megastor DVD-RW Triple Mode Burner
(IDE cable and Drive setup as Master)
Floppy: Mitsumi 7-1 Media card reader with 1.44Mb Floppy
(Floppy cable and USB cable)
RAM: 4x2 GB Kingston DDR2 800
Graphics: Ati Radeon X1900XT
This is my second computer I build, first no problem. But this one I am having problems.
I am having trouble trying to get it to load software off either the dvd-rw or floppy drives.
System bios recognizes that I have a HD, DVD-RW and floppy installed. I set it up to boot up from the cdrom drive first, HD and floppy.
I rebooted the computer and inserted WIN XP SP2 disk in drive, computer gets up to “verifying DMI pool” bios screen, I see the dvd drive activity light, but the computer fails to read this data.
I switched to floppy boot first, went to MS website and made six install disks, rebooted and inserted first floppy into drive. Same problem. It fails to read the data.
So, I thought of flashing the bios and updating it, I went to Gigabytes website and downloaded the bios (F11) to a disk. But I still had the same problem.
Can only one help with this problem. What settings in the bios setup do I need to change in order to load WIN XP into this computer and run it with one SATA HD only.
Case: Antec 900 w/associated cooling fans
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3R Version 2.0 Bios F9
PSU: BFG 850w
CPU: Intel Quad Core Q6700
Cooling: Arctic Freezer 7 Pro
HD: Seagate SATA 750 GB
(SATA cable hooked up in SATAII0)
DVD: Megastor DVD-RW Triple Mode Burner
(IDE cable and Drive setup as Master)
Floppy: Mitsumi 7-1 Media card reader with 1.44Mb Floppy
(Floppy cable and USB cable)
RAM: 4x2 GB Kingston DDR2 800
Graphics: Ati Radeon X1900XT
This is my second computer I build, first no problem. But this one I am having problems.
I am having trouble trying to get it to load software off either the dvd-rw or floppy drives.
System bios recognizes that I have a HD, DVD-RW and floppy installed. I set it up to boot up from the cdrom drive first, HD and floppy.
I rebooted the computer and inserted WIN XP SP2 disk in drive, computer gets up to “verifying DMI pool” bios screen, I see the dvd drive activity light, but the computer fails to read this data.
I switched to floppy boot first, went to MS website and made six install disks, rebooted and inserted first floppy into drive. Same problem. It fails to read the data.
So, I thought of flashing the bios and updating it, I went to Gigabytes website and downloaded the bios (F11) to a disk. But I still had the same problem.
Can only one help with this problem. What settings in the bios setup do I need to change in order to load WIN XP into this computer and run it with one SATA HD only.