Please Help with prob building comp

Tessu

OK. I've started building a new computer and it seems ive somehow managed to screw both my current and new computers up.

I had assembled my new computer with new components (execpt for the CD writer which i took out of the old computer) and started it up. Great it works. I then turn it off again and back on....still working. I then begin to install the OS. Oh-oh it says i have no HDD. So i turn the comp off and check it out. Luckly it appears to be only a loss connection.

I start the comp bacl up and then i get the message "CPU is unworkable or has been changed Please recheck - CPU soft menu". Hmm. Oh well i guess theres nothing to do but continue. It starts to boot up but for some reason it gets stuck on "verifying DMI pool data". :S So my question is: Is the CPU broken and if so if i get a new one will it be able to get past "verifying DMI pool data"?

Also i took out some jumpers when i was connecting the speaker headers to the motherboard. I have NF7-S mother board and took out the jumpers on the FPIO2 header i was just wonder if this could be the source of the problem too.

The other problem im having is that i took out my CD writter to put into the new comp and when i put it back into my old comp it refuses too boot up with the message "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter". However if I start the comp up with it not attached its perfectly fine. Is there some process that i have to go thru to get it to accept it?

Im really stuck with what to do for both problems. I've checked the jumpers and also i've tried clearing the CMOS on the new computer. Still nothing.

Please help me i dont know what to do. Thanks alot.

jnash007

Try removing all but the hd, cd-rom and floppy from computer. Clear cmos, go into cmos and look for the clear nvram and set it to enabled. Reboot with a floppy. Do a fdisk /mbr three times and then repartition the drive. Reboot and then install your os. <Hopefully> this might help you.

kryyst

Do you have both your HDD and CD-roms on the same IDE chain. If so do you have one set to master and the other to slave? Also it can matter as to which order they are on the ribbon. Make sure ath your HDD is first and your CD is 2nd.

If they are on seperate ide channels then both should be set to master.

Whatever jumpers you pulled put them back.

Tessu

I've put the jumpers back in and managed to get rid of the CPU is unworkable error but the computer still freezes when its "verifying DMI pool data".

My spec are: KF7-S mobo, 2800+ XP AMD athlon, 512 RAM, 400W PSU, Radeon 9600XT, Maxtor 80GB SATA HDD.

Also on my other computer i can now get it to start with the CD ROM connected to the IDE slot. However it doesnt seem to recognise it.

How can i fix this?

Thanks for the help

Nebulous

Unplug the psu from the wall and take the cmos battery out for a few minutes. Put the cmos battery back in and fire her up.

Tessu

W00t

OK i got the OS installed and everything's working as far as I can see except for two things:

-The speakers have no sound. I dissconnected the jumpers and attached the speakers again and the comp still works just with no sound. I get the beep as the computer starts but thats all. Any ideas?

-The second problem is the SATA i still havent installed the drivers but im not exacally sure how too.... I have the disk with them on it but when i try to boot from it the comp refuses too. How do I install these drivers?

Also my old computer still doesnt recognise the CD ROM. I've tried checked the jumpers and the connection to the IDE slots. Their all right. I think it might be a BIOS setting but i dont know what would make the computer ignore the CD ROM. Any info would be appreciated. (Its hard to cope without an occasonal relaxing game of Warcraft).

Finally thanks to everyone who has helped me to this point. Thanks again.