Windows XP Setup Loop (please help)

rental99rental99 NJ
edited June 2004 in Hardware
I've been pulling my hair out of my head for 11 hours now. Heres the situation....

I put together a brand new pc (specs at bottom) and i go to install windows xp pro from the cd. I have no a: drive, so i booted right to the cd. It starts to go into the setup process(all of this in dos-windows, like not the real windows, but the dos-grafic-like windows setup). It formats my HDD, and then it copies files to the harddrive. It then says that it needs to reboot and when it does so, it reboots and then doesn't boot from the harddrive, but back to the cd and it starts over again. 10 minutes later or so (takes forever) windows setup comes up and im back where i started. When i go into bios and set it just to boot to the HDD, it boots and says "insert bootable media... blah blah.. )HELP ME!!!!

MOBO: ASUS P4P800 SE
Processor: Inter Pentium 4 3ghz w/ HT
HDD: Samsung 160 gb
Grafix card: GeForce FXX 5200
Ram: SAmsung 2x 256mb chips (512mb total)
Lite-on DVD Burner

msg me on aim: rentaL99 if you have the solution or post it here , please help.

Comments

  • MackanzMackanz
    edited June 2004
    Allright, set the bootorder in the bios to harddrive as first, cd as second. Disable the others. Do this AFTER that first reboot you where talking about. Normally, there is a little wait-state when the message comes up that "boot from cdrom, press a key" for about 3 seconds, after that, it should look for the master boot record on the harddrive IF the harddrive is in the bootorder.
  • DJ_EvergreenDJ_Evergreen MB, Canada Member
    edited June 2004
    I have read in magazine that if you click on the "restart now" button in certain places it'll re-setup what you already done. If this is the case wait for 15 seconds and let it reboot by itself. This happened to me when I installed Windows XP for the first time.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited June 2004
    just after it reboots eject the cd. Then it'll boot up from the hard drive and ask you to put the cd back in.
  • rental99rental99 NJ
    edited June 2004
    it wont boot from the harddrive, though the hardrive formats fine in windows setup =(
  • Jolyon33Jolyon33 Kalamazoo, MI
    edited June 2004
    When the computer goes to restart, try removing the cd and shut the computer down. Wait about 10 seconds and start it back up again.
  • rapturerapture
    edited June 2004
    Check the jumpers on your hard drive and the IDe cable. This reminds me of the first WD HDD I bought which was VERY picky about jumper settings.
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