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Jokerswild · September 18th, 2006

I got the new video card and it works. I got to the bios screen and set it to boot from cd drive first but when I put the XP disc in and restart it goes thru PCI device listing then says Verifying DMI Pool Data........
then Error Loading OS. What the heck did I do wrong?

yurimxpxman · September 18th, 2006

Here's what came to my mind:

1) You didn't set the boot order correctly. Sometimes there are as many as 3 different places to choose the boot order. Look for them all and set them all to the CD drive.

2) Your CD drive isn't plugged in correctly.

Lead Head · September 18th, 2006

Is the CD a copy?

Jokerswild · September 18th, 2006

Bios shows only the HDD's not the CD drives so I took one hard off and connected the CD as a slave to the master hard disc drive. Now when I go into the bios no drives show on IDE channels.

Lead Head · September 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by jokerswild

Bios shows only the HDD's not the CD drives so I took one hard off and connected the CD as a slave to the master hard disc drive. Now when I go into the bios no drives show on IDE channels.

Connect only your HD and CD-Rom drive, and make sure your cables are good

Jokerswild · September 18th, 2006

My cables are good. It recognized both hard disc drives using either cable and both IDE slots worked also.

Jokerswild · September 18th, 2006

The molex connectors are good also since the one on the cd drive also power a fan and it works. This makes no sense to me. In the bios it shows nothing for that IDE channel with the cd's connected but showed the HDD's when I put them there. Do I need to do something in the bios? I hit the detect drive for that channel and it said detecting HDD which is weird and nothing happened. I put the correct date time and year in the cmos in the bios also.

Lead Head · September 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by jokerswild

The molex connectors are good also since the one on the cd drive also power a fan and it works. This makes no sense to me. In the bios it shows nothing for that IDE channel with the cd's connected but showed the HDD's when I put them there. Do I need to do something in the bios? I hit the detect drive for that channel and it said detecting HDD which is weird and nothing happened. I put the correct date time and year in the cmos in the bios also.

CD-Drive should not showup within the BIOS, but they should on the POST screen

Jokerswild · September 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Lead Head

CD-Drive should not showup within the BIOS, but they should on the POST screen

They show up on this computer in the bios why not the new one? Why the error loading OS message when their's no OS yet. There was a OS on the HDD but the cd drive should boot first so I can redo the OS.

The drives don't show on the boot screen. :(

**One4yu2c** · September 18th, 2006

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Originally Posted by Lead Head

CD-Drive should not showup within the BIOS, but they should on the POST screen

That's incorrect - opticals should be showing up in the BIOS if hooked up correctly.

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Originally Posted by jokerswild

Bios shows only the HDD's not the CD drives so I took one hard off and connected the CD as a slave to the master hard disc drive. Now when I go into the bios no drives show on IDE channels.

Verify that the jumpers on your drives (both HDD and optical) are set correctly. For example, if you're hooking up the HDD and optical to a single cable, make sure the jumper on the HDD is set to master, and that the jumper on the optical is set to slave.

September 18th, 2006	#1
Jokerswild ButtHead Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 5,196	Help I got the new video card and it works. I got to the bios screen and set it to boot from cd drive first but when I put the XP disc in and restart it goes thru PCI device listing then says Verifying DMI Pool Data........ then Error Loading OS. What the heck did I do wrong?

September 18th, 2006	#3
Lead Head Join Date: May 2006 Location: Rhode Island USA Posts: 1,716	Is the CD a copy? Opteron 64 165--1.5GB DDR--ECS KA1 MVP(thanks HL!)--x1800GTO 256MB--Seagate 320GB SATA--Antec 550 Watt--Antec P180

September 18th, 2006	#2
yurimxpxman Banned Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: /home/yurimxpxman Posts: 1,695	Here's what came to my mind: 1) You didn't set the boot order correctly. Sometimes there are as many as 3 different places to choose the boot order. Look for them all and set them all to the CD drive. 2) Your CD drive isn't plugged in correctly.