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Hi,

I have just bought a Gigabyte GA-85661FXM-775 motherboard and a 200GB IDE HDD.

I am trying to install Windows XP SP2 onto the computer however after the
initial installation the computer reboots and says that it cannot find an
operating system.

I have tried loading the drivers (F6) during installation but this does not
help. I have also checked that the motherboard is at the latest revision.

Any other ides?

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try repair install first

"mbrown" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have just bought a Gigabyte GA-85661FXM-775 motherboard and a 200GB IDE HDD.
>
> I am trying to install Windows XP SP2 onto the computer however after the
> initial installation the computer reboots and says that it cannot find an
> operating system.
>
> I have tried loading the drivers (F6) during installation but this does not
> help. I have also checked that the motherboard is at the latest revision.
>
> Any other ides?

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Is the hard drive truely an IDE?

Did connect it to the standard IDE port(s)? Not on any RAID ports?


"mbrown" <mbrown@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AEABCA2E-7A15-4611-8938-0D5653644686@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I have just bought a Gigabyte GA-85661FXM-775 motherboard and a 200GB IDE
> HDD.
>
> I am trying to install Windows XP SP2 onto the computer however after the
> initial installation the computer reboots and says that it cannot find an
> operating system.
>
> I have tried loading the drivers (F6) during installation but this does
> not
> help. I have also checked that the motherboard is at the latest revision.
>
> Any other ides?

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