New HD setup.....

[Guest]

Hi,
Old HD died. Installed new HD, on Master setting on cable(end), set the
jumper to cable select. Connected power cord.
Apparently Bios recognized it, I went into bios and told it it recognized it
still, then went and changed boot seq to cdrom(actually changed all three to
that) then SAVED and EXITED .
Installed the Windows XP Pro disk which is fine, in the CD rom drive which
worked great.
So now instead of letting me format and install XP or even run the WD
install and format options, it just cycles through to verifing dmi
pool....... blah blah.
Any ideas...
My Mobo is an Abit Max 3. BTW their forums are almost dead, dunno what to do.
Reset the CMOS settings? Would a Worm, Trojan or Virus do this? I use a
router with a nat firewall. Thanks for any help.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

You should not be able to get any worms/viruses if you do not have Windows
installed yet.

You need to check to see if the old hard drive was also using cable select
(not likely). You should always put the jumpers to Master/slave. I have
had problems with Cable Select.

Hard drives should always be place on the primary IDE channel and other
drives on the secondary channel. It is not advisable to mix hard drives
with CD/DVD drives on the same IDE cable.

In order to install Windows from the boot CD, I normally need to have a
CD/DVD drive to be configured as Master on the secondary IDE channel.

 

[Guest]

You should not be able to get any worms/viruses if you do not have Windows
installed yet.

You need to check to see if the old hard drive was also using cable select
(not likely). You should always put the jumpers to Master/slave. I have
had problems with Cable Select.

Hard drives should always be place on the primary IDE channel and other
drives on the secondary channel. It is not advisable to mix hard drives
with CD/DVD drives on the same IDE cable.

In order to install Windows from the boot CD, I normally need to have a
CD/DVD drive to be configured as Master on the secondary IDE channel.

thanks for your reply Ill try those

 

[RonK]

still, then went and changed boot seq to cdrom(actually changed all three
to
that) then SAVED and EXITED

Just set the first boot device to cd and the second to your hard drive.

 

[Anna]

You should not be able to get any worms/viruses if you do not have Windows
installed yet.

You need to check to see if the old hard drive was also using cable select
(not likely). You should always put the jumpers to Master/slave. I have
had problems with Cable Select.

Hard drives should always be place on the primary IDE channel and other
drives on the secondary channel. It is not advisable to mix hard drives
with CD/DVD drives on the same IDE cable.

In order to install Windows from the boot CD, I normally need to have a
CD/DVD drive to be configured as Master on the secondary IDE channel.

transient:
As Yves stated, your problem is surely not malware related.

As far as your CS setting for your HD, it should also be no problem assuming
you've properly connected/jumpered that drive as you apparently have judging
from your description.

Normally, as Yves indicates, the booting drive (we're obviously speaking
about a PATA drive here, right?) should be installed at the Master position
of the Primary IDE channel so we won't discuss that any further. But Yves
statement that "It is not advisable to mix hard drives with CD/DVD drives on
the same IDE cable" just isn't so with today's modern components. It might
have been true years ago but that time has long since past unless you're
dealing with ancient equipment. There is *no* performance issue should you
install your HD and optical drive on the same IDE channel. Each will perform
at its rated speed.

Also, there's no reason why one would need to install an optical drive as
Secondary Master in order for the system to boot to a bootable CD in that
device. It could be installed as a Primary or Secondary Slave with no
problem whatsoever as it relates to booting a bootable CD in the device.

As Yves suggests, you could try installing your HD with a non-CS
configuration as Primary Master. Every once in a while, albeit rarely, we
*do* come across a motherboard that tends to balk when the booting drive is
not connected as Master in a non-CS configuration. It's a rare occurrence in
our experience, but it does happen.

But all of this isn't your problem, is it? Do as RonK in another posting
recommended...
"Just set the first boot device to (the) cd(-rom device) and the second to
your hard drive." Make sure your boot order is as he's indicated. From your
description of the problem it sounds as if the system is trying to boot from
a non-bootable HD and when that fails it doesn't default to the optical
drive containing your XP installation CD. So assuming your CD is not
defective, it may simply be the boot order that's the root of your problem.
If that doesn't work, we can go on from there.
Anna

 

[Lil' Dave]

Hi,
Old HD died. Installed new HD, on Master setting on cable(end), set the
jumper to cable select. Connected power cord.

Use the jumper selection for master. Use an 80 wire ide ribbon cable, new.
Reconnect any cables, being sure they are firmly seated.

Apparently Bios recognized it, I went into bios and told it it recognized

it

You told it what?
If the HD is recognized automatically, don't go changing the autosettings to
manual.

still, then went and changed boot seq to cdrom(actually changed all three to
that) then SAVED and EXITED .
Installed the Windows XP Pro disk which is fine, in the CD rom drive which
worked great.
So now instead of letting me format and install XP or even run the WD
install and format options, it just cycles through to verifing dmi
pool....... blah blah.

If its hung at DMI, the configuration data is probably botched.

Any ideas...

Use the reset configuration data in the bios settings.

My Mobo is an Abit Max 3. BTW their forums are almost dead, dunno what to do.
Reset the CMOS settings? Would a Worm, Trojan or Virus do this? I use a
router with a nat firewall. Thanks for any help.

Resetting the cmos is the last recourse. If the hard drive is bare, how can
there be any intruders?