ThomBran Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 Happy New Year to all. 1st time setting up a computer have always owned Dells ready to go out of the box. Went to Frys Electronics the other day and bought a system for my son and I to build. Told by the sales people if I could build a 69 Camaro I could build a system. Into my 2nd day and I am begining to doubt it. Hope this is where you fine people can help. Sytem will boot - cd drives light up and read. Monitor, keboard, mouse work. The SATA 60GB Maxtor drive light never come on. However the BIOS does detect it. Windows starts to load but hangs on window set up blue screen after loading drivers (?) in the white space below. My DFI cd that came with the mother board is not reconized by any computer I own. Have Broadband internet so maybe someone can send drivers or a copy of that cd. We did not buy a floppy drive will we need to add one? Thanks in advance and help!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
THunDA Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 Did you load " Optimized Defaults" in bios ? Welcome to DFI Street btw... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomBran Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 Don't know what optimized defaults are. The BIOS is as it came from the factory. How do I load them? Thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 DFI-DOWNLOAD...sytem drivers Couple of things to note since you did not build a 69 Camaro without a good deal of either study and knowledge and manuals or such. Read, read and then read some more. About 70% of what you will read is opinion unless you stay away from the 'glitzy' sites. There is not a huge amount of opinion in here unless you are asking about what to buy? Then you will have to sort thru to the trusted user to see what is what there. Google search and search of this forum is your friend. Probably more already written down than any of us can remember. Something unearthed by one's 'own' looking and study is seldom forgotten. Easy gain = easy gone. Pics of bios screens and settings Easier to see and follow. Forum stickys at tops of sections are usually invested with helpful tips and sometimes cautions. Sata must be turned on in Genie Bios. Boot order of hard drives themselves must be set. Then the "booting" order of the many drives themselves must be set. Finally I foolishly said that I could setup a single SATA drive without problem. It was a 'foolish' statement in the end. I had to resort to WinXP with SP2 slipstreamed into/onto the install CD to accomplish this. Have not torn back down and redone the whole procedure to see if 'now' I could install plain WinXP or WinXP with only SP1a inside the installing files. In this respect I HAVE TO believe many have a single SATA hard drive with WinXP installed that did not use sllipstreamed or pre-installed SP2> but I am relating my results. Sometimes blind alleys appear and lead no where. You do enough of these things and you realize that often it does not go as planned and thinking while standing up is the only way to move forward. Take another course is what is my tactic often. Just a few ideas to get your feet wet and broaden your horizons. It is not what is wrong that must be ever concentrated on but what is to be done to fix it. Oh yes, recognizing the 'wrong' is necessary but a move to fixed is what is most highlighted in my mind. RGone... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest culinist Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 Right hand column, 3rd one down. Is your hard drive led hooked up properly?. http://www.angrygames.com/ Check out AG's bios screenshots. edit: RGone beat me to the punch Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 mR. AhhGee/tech support SUPREME if you can get it and why iin hale it beeps... The BEEP. Ah hah the BEEP. Sata? Ah forget SATA fix the beep. Heheheheheehehehe. RGone... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stowenrat Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 Don't know what optimized defaults are. The BIOS is as it came from the factory. How do I load them? Thanks press delete as it boots. Set optimized and try again. We did not buy a floppy drive will we need to add one The only wat to install XP is if you have a floppy and press f6 (do you want to install 3rd party drivers) and install them. This is if you are using sata hdd, (there is a way around this but you have 2 posts and asked a basic q so i gave a basic answer). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomBran Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 Thanks stowenrat. My DFI cd will not read. If someone could send me the SATA driver. Have installed a floppy drive pressed F6. As stowenrat said the system is looking for a driver to be inserted in drive A: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stowenrat Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 It is looking for the sata drivers on the floppy, if you don't have a floppy, you need one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 My Single Sata drive install and no dang F6> A few posts down in the thread. Not supposed to do F6 unless RAIDING... RGone... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stowenrat Posted December 31, 2004 Posted December 31, 2004 Yeah.. but, sometime it is easier to just install what it seems to whant. Just install a driver and move on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RGone Posted January 1, 2005 Posted January 1, 2005 Note in red from DFI downloads. Revision 5.03 Driver RAID Utility OS Window XP File R-NF3-XP.exe Size 660,206 bytes Date 2004/09/03 Description Utility Image for nVidia and Marvell SATA RAID for NF3 board under Windows XP. Remarks: 1. Installation at booting stage is required if you intend to boot from SATA RAID. Please check user's manual for installation. 2. This image is not required if you just take SATA HDDs as non-RAID devices. 3. If you need SATA RAID but don’t take SATA RAID as booting device, please install RAID driver from driver CD under Windows operating system. This utility is not required. If the image is not required for the loading of single sata drives then neither are the two driver files in the image needed. RGone... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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