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Hello,
"juzuz" wrote in message link.net... Hi Russell, Resetting the CMOS did nothing either. Kept the battery out for 10 minutes, put it in, reset everything in the BIOS, let Windows XP run like a new install, get to the Installing Windows (after selecting to do a new install) and it says, "Please wait" and goes no further. If I reboot and let it try to boot from the HD it tells me that "ntldr" is missing. I am at a complete loss over this. I just don't know what is wrong! Sally Are you sure u reset the cmos? I took out the battery on my mobo, but forgot to disconnect the plug from the psu. So I removed the battery 5 times, increasing the interval it was out till i remembered to unplug the power supply. BTW, how long did u wait after u saw the "please wait" page? Regards, George |
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George,
No, didn't unplug PS from mobo! I will redo this. Let's see, so far I've been waiting 15 minutes on the "Please wait. . . " Figured that would be long enough! I'll post back after resetting the CMOS again, with PS unplugged! Sally Are you sure u reset the cmos? I took out the battery on my mobo, but forgot to disconnect the plug from the psu. So I removed the battery 5 times, increasing the interval it was out till i remembered to unplug the power supply. BTW, how long did u wait after u saw the "please wait" page? Regards, George |
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George,
Yes, I did unplug the PS from the mobo, took out the battery for 10 minutes, put it back in, reset the bios settings (fail safe default) making sure it was set to boot from the new Seagate drive and NOTHING. It still halts at "Please wait. . . . " after selecting a new install of Windows XP. I do not know what else to try and I am more than aggravated. Can there be a problem with the mobo? I've tried different cables. What about something else I have installed on my system? Seagate HD WD HD (set as slave) Sony DVD Burner Sony CD-ROM FDD Giga-byte mobo GA-8IK1100 ATI Radeon 9200 128 meg 1 GB of PC2700 (in two 512 chips) RAM P4 2.8 Processor w/hyperthreading Zoom 56K modem I'm willing to try ANYTHING to get past this block! Sally |
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Hi Sally,
You're really having a time of it! I feel for you; nothing quite so frustrating as doing something that you've done many times before, just to have some new unidentified wrench in the spokes @%$%ing everything up. One thing I'm not quite clear on. You said you had your Seagate jumpered as cable select, but your WD jumpered as slave. You should only jumper as cable select when all shared drives are jumpered as slave. Just to be safe, make sure all 4 IDE/ATAPI drives are jumpered correctly according to their positions on the IDE cables as master and slave, don't use cable select. Check one more thing before you give up and RMA the board: in your BIOS, under the Frequency/Voltage Control submenu, is your memory frequency set to 133? Since you're using PC2700 memory on a chipset and processor that support a 800 MHz front side bus, the memory frequency should still be set at 133 (533 MHz front side bus speed) instead of 200 (what PC3200 memory would use with the 800 MHz front side bus.) If this doesn't pinpoint the issue, I'd suspect a bad MOBO...it happens occasionally, and we've pretty much ruled everything else out in previous posts. I really hope you get this baby up and running. Russell http://tastycomputers.com "juzuz" wrote in message link.net... George, Yes, I did unplug the PS from the mobo, took out the battery for 10 minutes, put it back in, reset the bios settings (fail safe default) making sure it was set to boot from the new Seagate drive and NOTHING. It still halts at "Please wait. . . . " after selecting a new install of Windows XP. I do not know what else to try and I am more than aggravated. Can there be a problem with the mobo? I've tried different cables. What about something else I have installed on my system? Seagate HD WD HD (set as slave) Sony DVD Burner Sony CD-ROM FDD Giga-byte mobo GA-8IK1100 ATI Radeon 9200 128 meg 1 GB of PC2700 (in two 512 chips) RAM P4 2.8 Processor w/hyperthreading Zoom 56K modem I'm willing to try ANYTHING to get past this block! Sally |
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Russell,
I checked my master/slave settings. All IDE devices are set correctly. Question: I see you use this board to build your systems at Tastycomptuers. Will the cpu I have (2.8 w/HT) work on my Asus P4S533 board? I know the hyper threading won't but will the proc work? I'm going to pull the Gigabyte and get an RMA and have it replaced but if I can get my system back up and running till I get the new mobo, I'd be happy! |
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Hi Sally,
According to the Asus motherboard CPU support specs at http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusu...pusupport.aspx, it won't, since your new CPU has the faster 800 MHz front side bus. I'm sorry to hear that you couldn't get things installed. Did you check your memory frequency setting in BIOS for your PC2700 memory? I was hoping that it would either be an erroneous IDE jumper setting or a tweak in BIOS, but you seemed to have verified all this. I'm sorry you couldn't get it up and running. Russell "Sally" wrote in message om... Russell, I checked my master/slave settings. All IDE devices are set correctly. Question: I see you use this board to build your systems at Tastycomptuers. Will the cpu I have (2.8 w/HT) work on my Asus P4S533 board? I know the hyper threading won't but will the proc work? I'm going to pull the Gigabyte and get an RMA and have it replaced but if I can get my system back up and running till I get the new mobo, I'd be happy! |
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Hi Russell,
Yes I did set the memory frequency in the BIOS for my 2700 memory. That made it worse, actually. Instead of hanging at the "Please wait. . . " when trying to install Windows, it rebooted as soon as I hit enter to do a new install of XP. The board it packed and ready to go back. Here's hoping that my replacement will be a smooth transition! Thanks again for all your help. You've been GREAT! Sally "Russell" rsullivan@tastycomputersdotcom_replacedotwith "." wrote in message newsPfcc.78638$K91.171569@attbi_s02... Hi Sally, According to the Asus motherboard CPU support specs at http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusu...pusupport.aspx, it won't, since your new CPU has the faster 800 MHz front side bus. I'm sorry to hear that you couldn't get things installed. Did you check your memory frequency setting in BIOS for your PC2700 memory? I was hoping that it would either be an erroneous IDE jumper setting or a tweak in BIOS, but you seemed to have verified all this. I'm sorry you couldn't get it up and running. Russell |
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