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Need Help. Welcome to ASUS motherboard make disk for dos menu

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Im getting this screen no matter what i do.
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Welcome to Asus motherboard make disk for dos menu
1) Nvidia XP 32-bit SATA RAid driver disk
2) nvidia xp 64-bit sata raid driver disk
3) nvidia vista 32-bit sata raid driver disk
4) nvidia vista 64-bit sata raid driver disk
5) Freedos command prompt
please choos 1~5
(i chose 4)
Please insert your formated floppy to A:\
Press a key to continue.
Error reading from drive A: DOS area: seek error
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?
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this is the message i get when i try to load the mobo CD. This is the ASUS P5N72-T Premium motherboard. My boot sequence is 1. Removable 2. HDD 3. CDROM 4. Disabled

Brand new build

anyone have a clue what im doing wrong?

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Try removing your motherboard cd from drive and re boot, I had the same issue.

Good luck.

Reply to MrSpecklezzz

Put your OS disk in and install unless you are going RAID.

After OS is installed, install MB disk.

Reply to rsetter1

exactly what are you trying to do??
install windows??
install the drivers after windows is installed??
if installing windows, are you using raid??

if your trying to install windows, using raid, then you need a floppy drive (with a blank formatted disk in it) in order to make the raid driver disk.

if your doing a fresh install of windows, without raid, then you need to put the os disk in, and reboot.

if your trying to install mobo drivers after windows is installed, then you need to boot to windows first, then put the cd in the drive. Note: you will get this message on reboot unless your hdd is set to boot before the cd, which you say it is.

I am guessing you havn't installed windows yet.

Reply to michiganteddybear

Just click resdtore factory settings and everything works fine for me, except that they ask for a new Micosoft activation code.
I installed new motherboard with original Windows on HD.

Reply to Beer from Zoetermeer

I am in almost the exact same situation as you, except that my choices are:
a)Make ATI XP/XP 64bit AHCI/Raid Driver Disk
b)FreeDOS command prompt
Please choose a ~ b:
Please insert your Formated Floppy to A:/
Error reading from drive A:DOS area:unknown command given to driver
(A)bort, (I)gnore, (R)etry, (F)ail?

Reply to Chicothegreat
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Folks, you need to install Windows before anything else. The Asus CD does not have Windows on it. If you didn't purchase a copy of an operating system for your new computer, you need to do so.

So, put the Windows CD in the drive and turn on the computer. Follow the instructions. Once you've got Windows running, put in the Asus CD/DVD to install specific drivers needed by the motherboard.

The Asus CD is only bootable to create needed files for the Windows installation - like the RAID drivers mentioned in your choices. If you're not installing RAID, you never boot this CD.

Reply to mongox
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