black screen of doom

[Guest]

I just built a new computer, D945GTP intel motherboard, intel pentium 4 3.0
processor, but am using old HD. when i try to reformat and install windows,
windows setup opens, goes throught it, i get to the part to format, it seems
for format the partion correctly. and even does its own restart! woohoo! but
when it starts back up again, i get a black screen of doom. with a blinking
line in the top left corner. nothing responds, nothing happens, left it for
hours, nothing, anyone have an idea?

 

[peterk]

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

 

[Guest]

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/windowsxp_sg_clean.asp

Im afraid my computer never seems to make it all the way to step 9, and i
only get the option to format with ntfs, never fat, if this really matters.

 

[peterk]

Are you using a SATA drive?? If so you need to load the SATA drivers...1st
blue screen push F6 have the drivers ready on a floppy.
read the manual as it relates to SATA drives some mobo deal differently with
them.

Maybe also give us a few more details of your system......
peterk

 

[Guest]

system specs:
CPU-Intel P4 530J. socket LG775. 800 FSB 1Mb L2 cache
Memory-Aeneon 512 DDR2-*2
HD- Maxtor Fireball 3 ATA 40g
MB-Intel D945GTP Micro ATX desktop board
Case-Raidmax Scorpio 868, 3 case fans
Optical Drive-32/10/40 atapi Cd reader writer

 

[Guest]

forgot to metion, right now im using internal graphics and sound

 

[peterk]

Some SATA motherboards have a dip switch that is factory set to boot of
SATA....does yours??
What is the boot order in the BIOS???
peterk

 

[Kerry Brown]

I just built a new computer, D945GTP intel motherboard, intel pentium 4 3.0
processor, but am using old HD. when i try to reformat and install
windows,
windows setup opens, goes throught it, i get to the part to format, it
seems
for format the partion correctly. and even does its own restart! woohoo!
but
when it starts back up again, i get a black screen of doom. with a
blinking
line in the top left corner. nothing responds, nothing happens, left it
for
hours, nothing, anyone have an idea?

Do you have any USB storage devices connected? On new Intel motherboards you
need to disable the ability to boot from USB or disconnect any USB drives or
remove any memory cards from attached card readers or printers with card
readers. In short if you have boot from USB enabled in the BIOS and the BIOS
sees any readable USB storage devices it will not boot.

Kerry