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cd rom isnt recognized on my new asus mobo...help!
hulkster:
well im one step ahead of you on the boot disk.com thing. ;D i got a boot disk.
heres the latest on my problem. im using one ide cable, i have the hd on master, and cd rom set as slave now. the bios recognizes both but i still get the same problem when im trying to do the install for the mobo drivers and stuff. so what i did was to go back into the bios and change the boot sequence so that the cd rom boots first, and for some reason it read it, and i can boot from the cd rom now. i have the option of booting from the hard drive or cd rom (you know that one screen)....what now.
Spaced Invader:
--- Quote ---I am pretty sure when using IDE cables that have two connectors on the end and you are using one drive on the cable the drive connects to the first plug on the cable not the one on the very end.
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Just so you know...the opposite is true. The end is master...only should matter on C/S but some controllers are flakey.
--- Quote --- i have the option of booting from the hard drive or cd rom (you know that one screen)....what now.
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Don't boot form cd. Boot to your HD and go to control Panel choose Add New Hardware and search for the HD...you may have to add it manually.
BTW do you have PNP OS enabled in your Bios?
hulkster:
k well i made it into safe mode into windows, so im thinking that i can do SOMETHING here. what do i need to do? ive heard theres a way to put all your windows drivers on your pc so you dont have to pull them from the cd. if i could do that, then i wouldnt have to wipe the hard drive. suggestions?
hulkster:
problem solved. i just took out the hard drive and transfered files to another pc. thanks to all those who helped!
GroovyTuesdaY:
Just to make this a long story short, its NOT recommended to use a previous windows installation when your installing a new motherboard. About the best thing you can do is just install windows over the previous version, althought even this is not a gurantee for a hassle free installation.
If you want to totally avoid the possibility of future grief, just do a fresh install after wipeing the hard drive or at the very least, boot to DOS and do a DELTREE C:\WINDOWS and then a DELTREE C:\PROGRA~1 that will wipe anything related to windows and programs. If you have other files that you want to keep move them to a separate folder on the c: drive somewhere. Your best bet is to copy your windows cd-rom to a place on your hard drive. I always call it c:\winbak and then boot to dos, run the deltree commands from the main C:\ (to get to the c:\ or in other words the ROOT type this -
CD\
After the deltree is all done, type CD C:\WINBAK (or whatever the folder was you made for windows backup from the cd) and run SETUP from there. Then you will be rockin and with less headache then i think your going to end up with trying to skirt around having to reinstall windows.
Good luck.
groovY~
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