Master\Slave Coop?

[Guest]

Hey i just put together a new comp, but the mother board only has one ida
slot, so i was forced to hook up my HD as master and CD as slave. but have
been having problems with booting up XP setup, could this be the problem. i
really dont want to go buy a new SATA hd if it isnt it.

 

[D.Currie]

Hey i just put together a new comp, but the mother board only has one ida
slot, so i was forced to hook up my HD as master and CD as slave. but have
been having problems with booting up XP setup, could this be the problem.
i
really dont want to go buy a new SATA hd if it isnt it.

That's a pretty common setup. So, what's the actual problem?

 

[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,

 

[D.Currie]

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,

When you're installing, are you deleting the existing partitions?