Newly Built Comp not working please help!

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• muddocktor

  July 2004 edited July 2004

  Welcome to the Short-Media forums.
  
  No, you don't have to run 2 serial drives for proper operation.:)
  
  
  Have you set your cdrom drive as your first boot device in bios? Also, you will need a floppy drive for your install so that you can install the serial interface drivers when installing XP, so that XP can properly find the hard drive. You will have to hit the F6 button when XP asks for any other SCSI drivers during the install, which is right after hitting the F8 button to accept the EULA. Stupid Microsoft didn't plan ahead enough when they put out XP originally and think that the floppy might become as extinct as the dodo bird so soon.

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• -LE--101st4life Bay Area, CA

  July 2004 edited July 2004

  thanks for the welcome!
  
  yes the cd drive is the first boot device in bios.
  but i do not have a floppy drive for the computer, and i dont have a floppy disk for XP only CD-rom.

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• muddocktor

  July 2004 edited July 2004

  That's not good, as you will have to feed XP the serial drivers during the install or Windows won't know where to find your serial interface hard drive. You might need to go get you a floppy drive just for the install, unless someone else has a magic trick up their sleeve. The only other option I can think of is to install Windows into a PATA hard drive then install the serial drivers from windows, then ghost the install to the SATA drive.

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• -LE--101st4life Bay Area, CA

  July 2004 edited July 2004

  muddocktor wrote:

  The only other option I can think of is to install Windows into a PATA hard drive then install the serial drivers from windows, then ghost the install to the SATA drive.

  
  Very Confused! I dont know very much about computers sorry. lol

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• mondi Icrontian

  July 2004 edited July 2004

  mudd is right, however...
  
  when you press delete - is this during the grey/black screen or before? if during, then check your XP cd on another system, whether you have the floppy or not, the XP install should start ... if the cd checks out, then carefully go through all your hardware... this sounds like it may be a hardware/hardware installation problem ...

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• -LE--101st4life Bay Area, CA

  July 2004 edited July 2004

  i press delete right b4 the screen goes black and it puts me into BIOS. the XP CD works i tried it on my friends machine. what do you mean carefully check hardware? hardware/hardware installation prob???????

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• mondi Icrontian

  July 2004 edited July 2004

  ok, so it seems you get past the POST.
  
  when you have the cd inserted and the cd drive selected as the first boot device, then get a blank screen, especially as you say the cd works in other systems, it seems to me that something is wrong with the way you put your hardware together, that or something is actually wrong with your hardware.
  
  what i meant was: check all your cable connections from your peripherals to the motherboard, check that all the seperate parts work independantly (ie check them in other systems) ... so far we've ruled out a software problem, the only thing left is to make sure the hardware is functional...
  
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  [LE].101st4life wrote:

  i press delete right b4 the screen goes black and it puts me into BIOS. the XP CD works i tried it on my friends machine. what do you mean carefully check hardware? hardware/hardware installation prob???????

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• -LE--101st4life Bay Area, CA

  July 2004 edited July 2004

  thanks for the help. i understand now! ok i will try checking the hardware now. thanks again.

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