Comp help, Boot up
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Topic: Comp help, Boot up
Posted By: FROG MAN
Subject: Comp help, Boot up
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:10pm
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Ok, my friend just bought a new mother board, new video card, and new power supply for his comp. He hooked it up, fine, it started up, showed the Asus start up pic, and the option to go into to the setup (bios) So we went into the bios, and I heard that when adding new hardware like a mobo it is safe to just reformat the hard disc. So we put the primary bootup as the CD drive, inserted the Windows XP sp2, cd, and then saved and exited the bios. "Push any key to start on disc.....) appeared, I pushed enter, "Detecting system" apears, then it the words disapeer, and then nothing, black, for ever (well we waited about 10 minutes with no LED turning on, on the cd drive) So, we doubled check the hookups, and tripled check, we are sure everything is fine, We also tried to boot up from the hard drive and it said "boot up, Failure" We phoned Asus, and they told is to check to make sure the primary disc was the last on the parrelel ribbon (it was) then they continued to tell us stuff, that we already new Then they said to bring it back, but we really dont think anything is wrong with it. We also, tried using a CD drive from a working computer, and still nothing. Please any help, would be awesome, sorry for grammer/spelling ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:15pm
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Windows XP SP2 had alot of problems when I got it. ------------- 
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Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:16pm
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i have used the exact CD im using for his comp, on mine multiple times, it works fine. ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Da Hui wrote:Posted By: Jack Carver
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:28pm
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Will it boot from any other CD or floppy? Could you burn a live Ubuntu CD or something? Also you might want to re-set the CMOS using the jumper. Unplug the mobo and then hit the power button before you do to make sure it gets fully drained. |
Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:35pm
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Posted By: Darur
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 3:50pm
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Could you post the name of the new mobo as well as the old mobo (if possible), processor and RAM? For some reason I suspect RAM issues if its not the CD, but unless the sticks were damaged during the swap or they are incompatible with the board it doesn't make sense. Also, have you tried putting in the Windows XP CD, install from that then install SP2 after? Thats how I usually install windows on a new build and it works. ------------- Real Men play Tuba [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/1859/newsmall6xz.jpg"> PH33R TEH 1337 Dwarf! http://www.tippmann.com/forum/wwf77a/log_off_user.asp" rel="nofollow - DONT CLICK ME!!1 |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 4:17pm
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My video card decided to switch my monitor to my built in GPU randomly on start up when I first installed it, so I'd have to plug my monitor into the other port before I could see anything. It could be a display problem. Does the mobo have a built in gpu you can plug the monitor in, so you can bypass the new not-yet-installed graphics card, if for nothing else than to kill a variable. I'm probably off base, but yeah. -------------  |
Posted By: Justice
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 4:34pm
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Did you change your bootup back to the HD in the Bios? ------------- 
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Posted By: FROG MAN
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 6:53pm
since it never booted up on the CD, no. Ill have to check what the mobos model is, ill post again from his roomates computer when i go over there ------------- <1 meg sig = bad> |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 09 January 2007 at 10:15pm
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Sounds like you have an IDE device not plugged in properly, or else a jumper on the drives aren't agreeing.
Are you using Cable Select? I know my Asus board doesn't always find a drive that is set to cable select. |
Posted By: prolitesniper
Date Posted: 10 January 2007 at 3:35am
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dude im waiting till vista comes out to update my laptop, but i cant help you there just try a cold start reboot then place the cd in ------------- Tippmann A5 RT 16in J&J Ceramic 14in linear smartparts New BT Apex Barrel 45ci 3000psi Nitro System blade trigger 4+1pack |
Posted By: travis75
Date Posted: 10 January 2007 at 7:38am
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