The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition

abuzar1..THANKS A LOT
One more Question: I've got 2 sound card connectors 10pin ea, 1 is AC97, The other is Azalia, I'm assuming the right one os AC97

 

No problem man.

 

One more Question: I've got 2 sound card connectors 10pin ea, 1 is AC97, The other is Azalia, I'm assuming the right one os AC97

 

Azalia is HD audio, and the realtek is your normal speakers. Just connect whatever you want to use.

 

OK I'm booting up ! All I can do is get is (reboot and select proper boot device. Can't get past this. Everything in BIOS is set, 1st cd rom, 2nd boot HDD

 

Have you set in the BIOS for it to boot from your CD-ROM drive first? (Assuming you're installing windows from scratch, I assume you are)

 

YES, and the CD Rom shows up on the screen

 

Yes everything shows up, just can't get it to boot to CD

 

Just follow this post and you will be ok. Sometimes setting your drives boot order doesn't always work because the system still defaults to searching for the hard drive.The ultimate easiest way is to go into your bios and disable all of your drives except the CD rom. This will force it to boot from your CD rom alone and during the process Windows will find your drive, format it, and install windows. After windows installation is begun you can enable your drive and then let it boot automatically without selecting boot from CD rom. This has worked on every Asus board that I've installed an SATA drive in going back to the P4P 800.

 

Disabled everything except DVD Drive, still comes up to reboot and select proper boot drive

 

CD has been booted in 4 other computers

 

Is it a S-ATA DVD Drive? If not, is it set as primary master?

 

Then you DVD rom is also an SATA drive so try this. Go into your bios and look for AHCI and disable it. If you don't see that then go to where your drive is listed in bios, hit enter and it should give you the option that is something to the effect of "use this drive as IDE." It should give you the option of having your system see the drive as IDE.

 

Both dvd rw are IDE SET to cable select

 

IF they're on the same cable try and set master/slave or disconnect one until the install is completed.

 

OK ! Disconnecting the 2nd DVD Drive seemed to work. Now I get a black screen with the Cursor flashing. But seems to stop their, I would think that after a couple mins something should happen