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Ok im going to attempt to explain hehe I know the problem I have is
something minor…
My specs-
Dfi lanparty nf4 ultra –D on board raid controllers
Amd64 3200+ Venice
1 gig(2x512) corsair twinxms1024 (2.2.2.5)
EVGA 6800gt pci-ex16
Atx 500psu
2 seagate barracuda 80gig s-ata150
windows xp pro
The first thing after assembling my comp:
Booted up was trying to run off cd then would say disk error, I then
popped in winxp it booted up went through setup asks me if I wnt to
install windows did that then rqstd me to format specific hd like
normal … I did one of the hds went through that xp wntd me to reboot ,
rebooted . Goes right into setup again so I formatted other drive . To
my knowledge when it reboots after formatting and installing window
drivers it goes right into installation of windows but it just keeps
repeating the process. So I restarted comp after formatting both drives
it goes back into windows setup and now showing its partitioned on both
drives in setup, one of them shows drive C: in windows setup when its
asking u to format the drive….. So I rebooted and hit f10 to set hd
array. Added both drives to the right and setting it to stripping then
exited . I then entered bios now before I added those hd’s it showed in
bios in standard cmos my hds showed up under sata 1 and sata 2 after I
setup array and added them in f10 when I go back to standard cmos they
are not there just sata 3 and sata 4 , sata 1 and 2 are missing…. ? (im
sure that’s normal)….
In cd rom priority it shows:
Both my dvd drive and dvd burner
In hard disk priority its showing
1. Scsi-0 nvidia stripe 149.00 ( is the 11 gigs that’s already used
up from the windows drivers that were installed, damn that’s big)
2. Bootable add ins
In removable priority’s showing :
1. floppy disk( it doesn’t show and specific name not sure if it
should, is my floppy even working??? , it’s a sony)
Network priority’s showing :
1. Lagacy lan card
I rebooted again it shows up on booted up nvidia stripe 149.00 I hit
f10 again and it shows same thing healthy hds both master so I exited.
Now I just let it boot and right after it shows irq numbers and such
then Dmi pool data it says disk read error occurred ctrl alt del to
reboot.
So I rebooted from cd went into setup I then noticed I had a disk labed
sata drivers I guess I do that before win setup by hitting f6 to install
I hit f6 and nothing happens it then problems me unknown mass storage
device scsi or cd rom yadda yadda hit (s)specify specific device or hit
enter to continue , when I hit s it asks me for disk I enter disk in and
it says please wait for like 10 seconds the nit prompts me for disk
again??? Im like wtf??? So I just continued and it goes through same
process as I explained earlier and when I attempt to pick a drive to
install windows on it says Os already on not good to install windows on
it again… but I havn’t fully installed windowsxp on one of them yet…
So my question is that disk I have for those sata drivers is that the
reason why its not letting me install windows? Do I need a start up
disk? Is my floppy not working? If I have a disk in floppy and booted
and it prompt me to take out disk does that mean its working???
Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause , I just built this machine
finally and I cant figure how to install windows on my hd hehe I guess
im just a windows xp noob….. I know u might get confused but its pretty
straight forward I haven’t done much and I know I have everything hooked
up right let me know if your confused L I don’t really have anyone to
talk to or to help me out , I just know this comp will scream when I get
it working right J
something minor…
My specs-
Dfi lanparty nf4 ultra –D on board raid controllers
Amd64 3200+ Venice
1 gig(2x512) corsair twinxms1024 (2.2.2.5)
EVGA 6800gt pci-ex16
Atx 500psu
2 seagate barracuda 80gig s-ata150
windows xp pro
The first thing after assembling my comp:
Booted up was trying to run off cd then would say disk error, I then
popped in winxp it booted up went through setup asks me if I wnt to
install windows did that then rqstd me to format specific hd like
normal … I did one of the hds went through that xp wntd me to reboot ,
rebooted . Goes right into setup again so I formatted other drive . To
my knowledge when it reboots after formatting and installing window
drivers it goes right into installation of windows but it just keeps
repeating the process. So I restarted comp after formatting both drives
it goes back into windows setup and now showing its partitioned on both
drives in setup, one of them shows drive C: in windows setup when its
asking u to format the drive….. So I rebooted and hit f10 to set hd
array. Added both drives to the right and setting it to stripping then
exited . I then entered bios now before I added those hd’s it showed in
bios in standard cmos my hds showed up under sata 1 and sata 2 after I
setup array and added them in f10 when I go back to standard cmos they
are not there just sata 3 and sata 4 , sata 1 and 2 are missing…. ? (im
sure that’s normal)….
In cd rom priority it shows:
Both my dvd drive and dvd burner
In hard disk priority its showing
1. Scsi-0 nvidia stripe 149.00 ( is the 11 gigs that’s already used
up from the windows drivers that were installed, damn that’s big)
2. Bootable add ins
In removable priority’s showing :
1. floppy disk( it doesn’t show and specific name not sure if it
should, is my floppy even working??? , it’s a sony)
Network priority’s showing :
1. Lagacy lan card
I rebooted again it shows up on booted up nvidia stripe 149.00 I hit
f10 again and it shows same thing healthy hds both master so I exited.
Now I just let it boot and right after it shows irq numbers and such
then Dmi pool data it says disk read error occurred ctrl alt del to
reboot.
So I rebooted from cd went into setup I then noticed I had a disk labed
sata drivers I guess I do that before win setup by hitting f6 to install
I hit f6 and nothing happens it then problems me unknown mass storage
device scsi or cd rom yadda yadda hit (s)specify specific device or hit
enter to continue , when I hit s it asks me for disk I enter disk in and
it says please wait for like 10 seconds the nit prompts me for disk
again??? Im like wtf??? So I just continued and it goes through same
process as I explained earlier and when I attempt to pick a drive to
install windows on it says Os already on not good to install windows on
it again… but I havn’t fully installed windowsxp on one of them yet…
So my question is that disk I have for those sata drivers is that the
reason why its not letting me install windows? Do I need a start up
disk? Is my floppy not working? If I have a disk in floppy and booted
and it prompt me to take out disk does that mean its working???
Sorry for the inconvenience this may cause , I just built this machine
finally and I cant figure how to install windows on my hd hehe I guess
im just a windows xp noob….. I know u might get confused but its pretty
straight forward I haven’t done much and I know I have everything hooked
up right
let me know if your confused L I don’t really have anyone totalk to or to help me out , I just know this comp will scream when I get
it working right J