My newly built computer has harddrive booting issues

yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
edited May 2004 in Hardware
My new 667 X2 Pentium 3 system can't seem to boot the harddrive. Have tried two harddrives, onboard and pci ide, messed with lots of settings, can't get to work, it says some disk boot failure error. What can this be? The drives work perfectly a few hours ago in another computer. What settings might I be missing from the P3 era. The mother board is an asus 440 chipset.

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  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited May 2004
    The drives work perfectly a few hours ago in another computer.
    did you format and install windows on these drives when they were in the other pc? if so, thats your problem. otherwise, sorry i couldn't be of more help
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited May 2004
    TheBaron wrote:
    did you format and install windows on these drives when they were in the other pc? if so, thats your problem. otherwise, sorry i couldn't be of more help

    I didn't at first, but then tried it that way after it not working.

    :banghead: :rant: :banghead: :zombie: :banghead: :bawling:
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited May 2004
    Are the drives recognized in the BIOS? How are the jumpers set? How is the IDE cable configured? Are you using an 80-Pin cable?

    Sorry to be so full of questions when I know that what you are looking for are answers. More info will help us help you out. :thumbsup:
  • yaggayagga Havn't you heard? ... New
    edited May 2004
    profdlp wrote:
    Are the drives recognized in the BIOS? How are the jumpers set? How is the IDE cable configured? Are you using an 80-Pin cable?

    Sorry to be so full of questions when I know that what you are looking for are answers. More info will help us help you out. :thumbsup:


    yes, but only in the setup, not always when booting, but usually. Jumpers are correct, can't go wrong with one master one slave, simple, checked to much. One ide cable, also tried 2 with each on a master. 80 pin cable yes.
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