NEW BUILD, SECOND BOOT, NO GRAPHICS SIGNALS

[AJSG59]

I booted my new build last night for the first time w/and old EIDE hard drive. i changed the boot options from USB-CD/DVD-HDD to HDD-CD/DVD-USB. i purchased a new drive today (SATA). NOW the graphics card(s) won't signal the monitor!!! So i can't see a daggum thing! Guess i'm going to have to put the old EIDE drive back in, reset the boot order in setup and then what? Should i be able to boot from the DISC that came w/the ASUS mobo? the HDD didn't come w/ANYTHING. Do i need to download something to USB to boot with? the mobo manual isn't telling me ANYTHING! where do i go from here please?

 

[AJSG59]

Ok, have signal now. phew! i got things going w/the old drive; removed it as things begin to happen. Now, with the ASUS DVD used to boot with - i'm stuck on FreeDOS asking if i want to make a RAID DISK (i don't) - it refers to a floppy drive that i don't have. the other option is FreeDOS. the system sees the C:/ drive, there's nothing there. How do i get the OS installed? it is on a disk in the CD-Rom drive.

 

[AJSG59]

PANIC OVER!!! After toiling w/FreeDOS for a minute, i did some research on the Web, it's the OS available on the HDD; i think the ASUS boot disk installed it to the available HDD. There's only 1 in there now, so it had no other to choose from.

Didn't understand the situation w/the 2 CD and DVD drives. Went to Microsoft Support -which said- Put the XP Pro 64b disk in the BOOTABLE CD or DVD drive and setup will begin. i'm thinking, 'it can't be THAT easy' But it was! Only the DVD drive was bootable. Once i rebooted with the disk in the drive, SETUP BEGAN!

So, i'm on my way. Ppl are reading, but not responding, so i solved my own problems and hopefully can help someone else in my earlier predicament.