I recently home built my own system. I had a lot of problems initially, but got most of them fixed. I still have a coule though. Here is my system: (from memory, so apologies if I get a typo) Intel Q9550 Quad Core processor NVIDIA GeFORCE 9800 GTX+ 750W Power supply NVIDIA 790i Motherboard 4GB OCZ DDR3 RAM (2 2GB Sticks) SATA 500GB HD Problems: 1) Every so often, the computer locks up and I get a pattern across the screen, kind of a diagonal repeating distortion. Only solution is to reset/reboot 2) When I power off, the computer goes to the screen that says "It is now safe to power off the computer" but won't automatically power off on it's own. Thinking this must be a BIOS setting. 3) This is the most pressing, I can't for the life of me, get the SATA HD to boot. I can see it in the BIOS just fine, I can see it as a secondary to my old IDE HD I have that already has WINXP on it, but I simply can't make it boot without the IDE installed. I don't want the IDE in there at all if I can manage it, I need it elsewhere. a) The BIOS, no matter how I set it up, insists on putting the IDE first, so the SATA is always D: b) DOS boot disks don't see the SATA at all c) If I try to install the OS without the IDE installed, it says it can't find a place to put the Swap file, and quits d) If I try to install the OS with the IDE installed, the boot files go on the IDE, and Windows goes on the SATA e) my OS Disk is not bootable, and don't know how to make it so, it's an upgrade copy, not full version. (I have FULL Win98, and Upgrade WinME disks) Can't boot to 98, too much RAM, prefer not to boot to WINME if I can help it, can boot directly from DOS prompt to XP install, but DOS can't seem to find the HD at all. Is it just me, or as the technology gets more complex/powerful/faster it gets harder to boot up and install the OS that first time. Maybe my methods are just out dated, any ideas?
Did you download your sata drivers for your motherboard and put them on a floppy disk ? Or you can make a slipstream CD with your drivers on that disk..
I have the drivers from the motherboard on a floppy disk, it will find the HD ok, if I have the IDE in place, it will install WIN XP on the SATA just fine, but the boot files are on the IDE. If I remove the IDE, it won't boot. Also won't boot if I copy those boot files over to the SATA first. Never heard of a slipstream CD, what's that?
Hello.....This is a very unusual problem. This must not happen with a new system. I think you should go step by step. First make ur bios jumper in a normal position, if you have done any changes in the hardware or in the bios setup. The second thing is, just take out ur IDE HDD and when u try to install XP in ur Sata HDD, this Sata HDD must show in when the installation starts, just when u click on enter. B'cos in some boards u have to set one setting to get the Sata HDDdetected when u start the new installation. Now if u aren't just able to start the installation & there is some error in between, than plz try to install Windows Vista to get some doubts clear....... Thank you
Slipstream is where you use a Windows setup disk, and you use nlite to make your custom setup disk...You install the sata drivers on your custom disk.. I had to do last week and it worked perfect..
Can you give me a link to somewhere that has step by step directions on how to do this? I'll try anything at this point.
I tried that, but when I try to boot without the IDE in there, Win XP Setup finds the SATA just fine, but it won't start the Setup, because it says it has no place to put the Pagefile to begin the setup. I can't stand Vista.
Slipstreaming worked Beautifully!! thank you SO much for the tip, this Thread is now ok to be closed!
