I feel like an idiot for asking this but im a noob, so here it goes. I decided to build my first pc and chose to go with an A8N SLI Delux board. I get the logo screen of the board when I boot up, with the option to enter bios settings. Than afterwards i get to a screen witj a list of all my drives (slaves, masters etc...) and than a list of all my pci devices and thats it. I get stuck with that screen everytime. Its probably just something really small and a dumb mistake causing this problem, but any help would be really appreciated. Thanks in advance.
yep, it isnt a completely new build I ported my old hdd, floppy and DVD drives over. Everything else on the other hand is new. specs: MOBO:Asus A8N Delux SLI CPU:AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Graphics card:ATI Radeon X550 RAM: 1GBx2 Crosshair PSU: 550W Safe Power Soubdcard:Currently the one on the mobo HDD: 120GB Seagate IDE hard drive ROM: Sony DRU-720A DVD+/-RW oh and i got XP Pro with service pack 2 installed.
what windows is on the old hd because you are using a different board & possibly video card that the windows disagrees with til setup properly
xp pro, service pack 2 update:update: I also tried to boot up with a copy of knoppix off a cd but no luck. I end up back at the same place. It doesnt even get a chance to read the cd and it doesnt do it while its at the listings either.
Enter bios settings and make your primary boot source the DVD drive. Then save and restart. And oh yeah put in an OS disk in the drive
tried that. I got into knoppix but for some reason could not start up the windows install cd....it just wouldnt register that i hit a key while it was asking if i wanted to boot from a cd.
guess i lucked out =/...well at least i can get in through knoppix. Ill play around with things a bit more see if i can come up with anything.
