nicoritschel Posted July 5, 2004 Posted July 5, 2004 Hey! I just built my new rig and it turned out great! I installed windows XP proand everything went fine. Then, I pushed my overclock too far and the system wouldn't post, so I cleared the CMOS and brought my overclock back down to 2.54ghz. Then, my hard drive partition was deleted somehow and I couldn't boot back into windows. I tried reinstalling windows, but after it copied the installation files to the hard drive, the system would not read the MBR after it rebooted the first time during the installation of windows(I checked to see if the finstallation files were there via knoppix). I have tried installing windows 7 times and windows won't continue installing after the first reboot. SPECS: Mobile [email protected] 1.85v Volcano 11 with Smartfan 2 and AS5 DFI NFII INFINITY Generic pc2100(soon to be pc3200) 80gb WD SE Aspire X-Dreamer with included PSU ABIT TI4200 OTES Thanks! -Nico Ritschel Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted July 5, 2004 Posted July 5, 2004 when you reset CMOS, did you set the boot order up properly again.? also,, if IDE drive, did you set the bios to be LBA instead of CHS? Oh and welcome to DFI street....hope we can work it out for you! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoritschel Posted July 6, 2004 Posted July 6, 2004 Yes, I set up the boot order again. LBA didn't fix the problem, either. Thanks anyways, though. I think I'm going to RMA the drive tomorrow. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow of chaos Posted July 6, 2004 Posted July 6, 2004 have you tried doing a full format on the drive? dont try setting up over your installation of files you have now or it wont work. let us know what happens Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicoritschel Posted July 7, 2004 Posted July 7, 2004 I tried setting the drive to LBA and it worked! Thank you so much exeter_acres! -Nico Ritschel Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted July 7, 2004 Posted July 7, 2004 Glad it worked..... not sure about the latest beta, but for some odd reason in the older BIOS' if you reset the CMOS, it defaults to CHS.... Enjoy the fun! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrices Posted July 7, 2004 Posted July 7, 2004 yes this is a serious . up in the official bios. "optimized" ie. default settings after a cleared cmos result in drives being set to chs and you can't boot into windows. just set to auto and youll be fine. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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