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cd rom isnt recognized on my new asus mobo...help!
Edgedamage:
If the BIOS sees the drives then your cables/drives are ok. I am almost positive it is because you are using a HDD that has a op system installed from another motherboard. Everyone I asked this morning who builds systems all said the same thing when building a system use a formatted HDD. When setting up windows you get that screen "setup is checking your systems hardware config" I think that is the point where windows gets to know your motherboard.
Edgedamage:
Or this might work try starting the system with a win98 startup/boot disk. You should be able reinstall win98. If your roms are on a diffrent partion on the disk win98 willl reinstall without walking over anything not related to win98.
GroovyTuesdaY:
Maybe i misspoke. Only leave the jumpers off the hard drive. You will need to set the cd-rom jumper to master. Then you should be good to go.
groovY~
hulkster:
alright, i put the jumper back on the cd rom drive making it master. and left the hd jumper off. however i still get the same thing.
about the win boot disk. i dont have a seperate partition, everything is on one. so that wont work. is there no other way to do this? i dont have that norton ghost utitily or id use that. *sigh* is there no other way????
Edgedamage:
What computer are you using for the forums?