computer hangs after setup

[bill]

I decided to make a disk partition so I decided for a fresh setup.

"Press any key to boot from CD....." Enter
Partition OK
Format OK
Copying files OK
After Setup copied w2k files
Initialize Windows OK
Setup reboots
then again "Press any key to boot from CD....." Didn't press any key.
Computer hangs.

Motherboard is ASRock 775i65G. BIOS 3.20. Pentium IV 3GHZ, 1GB RAM.
Bios setup seems to be OK. Two SATA disks (Seagate 80 GB & Samsung
200GB) are recognized and formatted okay.

Run out of ideas. Any help?
Thanks

 

[John John]

Did you supply the SATA drivers to the Setup program? Press F6 at the
begining of the Setup and supply the drivers on floppy diskete when
asked to do so.

John

 

[bill]

Did you supply the SATA drivers to the Setup program? Press F6 at the
begining of the Setup and supply the drivers on floppy diskete when
asked to do so.

John
I did before (june 2007) and worked without supplying additional drives.

 

[John John]

John
I did before (june 2007) and worked without supplying additional drives.

Were both drives attached during that install, specifically was the 200
GB drive attached?

John

 

[bill]

Were both drives attached during that install, specifically was the 200
GB drive attached?

Solved!
Yes the 200GB HDD was attached. What happened is that for some reason
disk 1 (C was changed to E: and and disk 1 (D to F:. That's why
Setup didn't find the disk. I deleted both partitions, recreated C: and
D:, formatted C: only and worked fine.

AFAIK the ASRock mobo is fully SATA (INTEL) compatible. No floppy is
supplied along the motherboard.


Thanks a lot.

 

[John John]

Solved!
Yes the 200GB HDD was attached. What happened is that for some reason
disk 1 (C was changed to E: and and disk 1 (D to F:. That's why
Setup didn't find the disk. I deleted both partitions, recreated C: and
D:, formatted C: only and worked fine.

AFAIK the ASRock mobo is fully SATA (INTEL) compatible. No floppy is
supplied along the motherboard.


Thanks a lot.

You're welcome. Keep in mind that even if the mobo can run SATA in IDE
mode the Windows 2000 setup will still choke on disks/partitions larger
than 137GB. Thanks for letting us know how you resolved the problem.

John