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Old March 20th 04, 11:37 AM
Povl H. Pedersen
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In article , Jim Baird wrote:
Ok Guys call me a dumb ass but I am new to this....
I have tried everything ..now I get (NTLDR missing) when I try to boot from
the CD
Thanks for any help


Usually means it has a filesystem FAT/FAT32/NTFS created on WinNT/XP,
but isn't bootable.

These aren't my tips, but this guy is running Win64, So FWIW ......

WinXP-64 Beta install on MSI FIS2R
Set BIOS to defaults
Disable the caches (video & bios)
Enable CnQ
Don't disable either sata controller even if your not using it
Enable or disable the onboard sound depending on your having a sb in a
pci slot or not.
Don't do the F6 at the beginning of the install.
Don't try to feed xp64 any drivers in the very initial part of the
Install.
The firewire drivers, usb drivers, serial drivers are all on the xp64
install.


On my cheap FIC K8 T800 I had trouble until BIOS was upgraded
(not with Windows but every kernel 2.4 linux based install).