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Ive checked in BIOS and there is no raid set up, but i disconnected the 2nd HDD just in case, i ran the link u sent me onto a floppy and went through the windows setup again but i get the same error. any ideas what im doing wrong? marc

Explicit, Im back!! and its another problem. I can now get to where i press f6 to install SATA drivers, i then get a screen coming up telling me to enter the floppy with the drivers on. I enter the floppy and press enter and it gives me 2 selections to choose from: one saying blah blah...

Yeah i use the SATA ports on the outside of the MOBO. I dont understand why its being problematic as when i first built the PC windows installed easily, I managed it without any problems or need for help I will try the drives tho, cheers again explicit I'll owe u a pint after this marc

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This is getting very annoying now! I found the SATA drivers, they were on a floppy disk that came with the MOBO. I booted up again like normal and it booted from the cd, went into setup and said at the bottom press f6 to install SATA drivers like it did before, so i press f6 but nothing...

yikes its one bloody thing after another with this PC!! Disconnecting the 2nd CD rom worked. It asked me to press any button to boot from the cd, which i did and it put me into setup. Yay Then... Blue screen, says at the bottom press f6 to install sata drivers, press f2 to do...

Ok ive just popped round to my friends and got his disk and it didn't even ask to press any key to boot from disk, just went straight through to windows :mad:

Yes i still want to do a re-install of windows The LED on the drive comes on, the cd does have a large scratch on it which is worrying. i can borrow a friends XP disk and try that. First time i installed windows was with my main cd rom which was the only one i had at the time. thats the...

that was the case, but ive just tried it again and it boots fine now into windows with no CD in and all 4 momory modules in place but i tried again where it says press any key to boot from cd rom and again it just gets stuck. The curson still flashes when i press a key and it reads from the...

yes i saw that, i pressed a key and nothing happened for about 5 minutes so i turned the PC off, i then moved the windows cd to my other CD drive (cos I have 2) and it boots through to windows I thought maybe my 2nd CD drive is the one refered to in the BIOS and it got stuck when the cd was...

yes, windows XP on startup it says press 'del' to go into BIOS or 'f9' for express recovery. I tried 'f9' just to see what it does but it said later in the boot up that hpa or something not detected and just booted up from the disk as normal

Guys I have booted the PC up with all 4 memory modules in and it gets to the same point with the same message. I went into the bios and changed the 1st boot drive to 'cd rom' and put my windows cd in there and rebooted. But now, what happens is that it says on screen during bootup that...

With only the 2 old memory modules, in the none Dual speed setup (like its been for the last 2 years) I flashed the BIOS - all went ok I then shut down and moved one of the old memory modules from position 3 to position 2 to make them dual speed - i then rebooted and got to the message I...

Hi I did as you said, and flashed the BIOS with the latest release. It seemed to go well and so, like it said, i restarted the computer to make the affects active - which I did and it booted up fine. So i shut it down and moved the memory module from position 3 to position 2 again and hey...

Hi, thanks for your help I hadn't tried that but I just have and again, i get the single long beeps with large gaps between them. Ive tried every compination but it wont boot at all Someone had told me to reset the BIOS? will this work and if so how do i do it if i cant get onto my PC...

by the way, i forgot to mention i did go through the sticky post about fixing computers and established that my BIOS was beeping about the memory so i know its an issue with memory, but how come simply moving the memory module to another slot causes so many problems when booting? How do i get...

Hi When i built my PC 2 years ago, it was the first time i had ever built a PC before and the only problem i encountered was when reading the instructions, i installed the memory (Dual 512Mb modules) into the wrong sockets on the motherboard. I thought I read in the instructions that to...

Cheers guys, the info you have given me is superb, just what ive been looking for. I was going to head to Richer sounds as someone else told me to go, but the nearest one is about 15 miles away so difficult to get to for me. Once again, thatnks for the info. Marc

Im not after anything to blow people away, I just wanna hear music in multiple rooms - and since all my music is in mp3 format I have to use my PC. I cant think of a better way to play mp3's in multiple rooms than the way i have said. I dont listen to music loud, and im not after top end...

Hi all I have a huge collection of music on my PC in mp3 format and i want to use my PC to power all the music in my house. Basically, im looking to have an amp and sets of speakers in 2 different rooms. I also have LCD tv's in those rooms and a bluetooth keyboard/mouse so basically i can...