Urgent, need help!

darkorb

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Hi there everyone, as you might or might not know, i purchased the ASUS A8N-SLI SE motherboard.

I have connected everything, and she seems to be running fine, but only one of my DVD drives are being detected. As with that, when i stick in the XP disc to do a clean install, nothing comes up saying, Press a key to boot from cd..

I dont no what to do, and instead of the Press a key to boot from cd.. I get the error messege, it goes along the lines of, Error insert correct boot disk, somthing like that.

Any help would be greatly apreciated!
 
First when you build a new comp keep it as simple as possible (1 DVD drive, 1 stick of memory and no sound card)

Is one of the DVD drives set to master and the other set to slave?

are you using sata for the HDD or IDE?
 
how many dvd drives are you using?

Also you need to go in the bios and set it to boot from the DVD first and Hdd second.
 
thx for the help markkleb, i went inside and unplugged one of the DVD's, and made the other Master, and yes i did make the CD boot first.

now i ran into another problem, as the installation was going, i noticed it said that there is 131093mb space on the HD. This is a 250gb. Whats going on?
 
if your using a xp cd with sp1 or less it might not see more then 129 gigs becauses of its limitations sp2 made it so drivers over that would work.
 
darkorb - with u`r DVD/optical IDE, u need to be sure of these things:

1. these days u can make all the jumpers on the devices Cable Select. (there are extreme cases where it won`t work, but I haven`t seen 1 in about 5 years)

2. the IDE ribbon has 3 connections, 2 will be closer together - these plug into the devices, the other connects to the mobo.

3. the connector on the ribbon at the opposite end of the mobo connector has to be u`r Master. (it doesn`t matter that u have the device set as CS on the unit, the fact that it`s on the end will tell the mobo what it is)

4. the remaining connector in the middle is the slave.

Looking at the connector then: Motherboard:----------Slave:-----Master:

In most cases, the mobo side of the ribbon is blue also, master black and slave grey. But this has been known to change slightly, especially with rounded cables.

5. Using the middle connector as a master can result in data loss, normally u don`t notice as much cos although a read/write may fail, the OS will try again until it gets it right. - obviously this will result in a slower performance.

6. With IDE cables, the speed of the devices on 1 ribbon syncs down to the slowest one. So if u put any optical drive on the same cable as a hard drive, the hard drive will operate at the same speed as the optical. Opticals normally operate at ATA66, this will mean u`r possible ATA133 drive will now operate at ATA66.

Simple rules to remember ;)
 
thanks alot, im gonna install XP, and see what it says in there for the HArd drive.

im gonnna install everything, and see if its all compatible, do 3dmark, oc a bit, and see if its stable, then i was thinking of rreformatting again, but this time i want the full specs of my hd, thanks for your help everyone!

thanks

Edit: im trying to do 3dmark06, but it says need Directx, so i go to dl that, then during installation, it says

"A cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted. Please verify that Cryptographic Services are enabled and the cabinet file certificate is valid."

and ntune just won't install
 
Right click the clock on your screen. Left click Adjust Date/Time

Set the min, hour, date and Dont forget the year. These are really simple problems. No need to get frustrated.
 
Since youve formated now doing a reformat is pointless. Always always install DX9 first, chipset drivers, then video drivers, then continue from there. Also, Windows has a 127gig cap until your actualy in Windows. Usualy then though it still detects the HD as 127gig.
 
k thanks every1, sorry for showing my frustration

everything is going pretty smooth so far, iv done 3dmark06, and got 2300 stock, then i tried at 2.5ghz, and got 2600 pts, my gfx card was also oc'd to 400/1100

although, my hard drive is still shown as 127gb max. and i have all windows updates and SP2 installed

Edit: forgot to say, most of the stuff i download, i have to do it 2 times, since it says its corrupted :S

also, usb 2.0 isn't working

i plug something in, it says, this will work faster if connected to a USB 2.0 port
 
ill check that :)

Edit: Flash doesn't install, says something is missing :S

An I/O occured while installing a file. This is normally caused by bad installation media or a corrupt installation file.

Logitech G15 driver doesn't work either. Error 1901. Attempting to read from the source installation database:

C:\WINDOWS\INSTALLER\b0efe.msi

wtf is that

and now i plugged in both CD drives, and now none, show up, so i gotta change the jumpers somehow
 
just tto clarify things up, most of the problems have been fixed, thanks but these ones still remain

usb2.0, it just, isn't detected

my hd is 250gig, only 130 is recognized

and my superPI score is 45 for 1m, however on my old mobo, with a much MUCH worse mobo, i was getting 40, do i just need to fiddle?

and last, should i OC from Ntune or bios?

thx
 
ocing from bios is most reliable.. second you can always partition your hard drive and 3rd check your drivers to help in superpi
 
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