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[A. Toczko]

The P4 system has a VIA chipset, so yes, chipset drivers, then onboard video
drivers, and rest of drivers, then immediately on to SP2, which is where I
am right now. So far so good.

 

[Rock]

Yes, I did all of that. I've often moved IDE devices between pcs and when
the jumpers are set wrong, it does appear obvious, but this time the problem
seems different.

I've added it in as the primary slave, and have set the jumpers as slave.
The primary master is still in place (original drive) so I had no jumper
changes to do there. I thought of the CMOS battery, but I haven't lost the
time, so I ruled that out.

If you did not have a slave drive on that primary channel before and
added one now recheck the jumper settings for the Master. Some drives
have different jumper settings depending on whether it is the only drive
on that channel - ie Master alone is different than Master with slave drive.

 

[Plato]

You boot up the PC with the Windows XP CD-ROM. Before that
you need to verify that BIOS Boot device sequence is set correctly.
Most times the default 1st device is the floppy. You'll need to change
that to CD drive.

Not neccessarily. One can have the first device as the floppy, the
second as the cd, the third as the hard drive. The pc will look to those
devices in that order, in theory