Greg M. Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 Hey guys (I'm obviously new here). I am having a problem installing windows XP on my system. The motherboard is a replacement for a A8N-SLI that I killed (with a horribly wrong watercooling experiment). (quick note, CD-ROMS are on secondary IDE) Here is basically what happened: Installed new mobo. Wouldn't boot. Bought adapter for PSU, verified CPU, RAM, etc, but video card was dead. Installed a new video card. Tried installing windows. Could not copy flies from floppy disk. Tried new floppy drive. Loaded them, but could not get the drivers off of the disk when it was copying the files. Tried new floppy disk. Same thing. Tried a new CD-ROM. Copied floppy drivers, but would not load most of the windows CD drivers. Tried new Windows CD. Same thing. This is where I'm stuck. Windows is showing my my 3 partitions on the RAID array. However, I cannot get windows to install. Neither drive or CD will transfer everything it needs from the CD. They will write some data, however, as noted by the hard drive heads moving around audibly. Is there some sort of trick to these DFI boards? Any comments or suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
G.N.U.Fragman Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 that sounds like a RAM fail......and seing you have thos corsair RAM, could be the problem...they have been acting strangely along with the NF4 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M. Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 Really... well, thanks for the heads up. I'll try with one stick... Be back in about 10 min. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg M. Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 F***. Another peice of bad hardware... I have really bad luck with high-end stuff, and really really good luck with piles of junk. I hate my life... kinda. Anyways, it seems to have been one of the sticks of RAM. That really pisses me off. EDIT: After the install, it is now stuck in a BIOS re-boot cycle. It goes to boot from something, and before it says its stuff about Saving CMOS, it just hangs, with the cursor blinking. It then re-starts. Num-lock does not respond. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowboy Posted January 17, 2006 Posted January 17, 2006 There are many tricks to these boards suggest read thru this and follow:http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...04&postcount=49 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE_Nemesis Posted January 19, 2006 Posted January 19, 2006 Have you tried a CMOS reset? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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