system wont boot any os or cd

[Guest Down1oader]

i have df sli-d

bios 209

1gb ocz 4200 dual channel

audigy 2 and karajan plugged in

x850xtpe plugged in

cd writer and a dvd writer on ide 2

maxtor 160gb hd on ide 1

motherboard revision a02

 

tried single stick of 512 ocz in both orange slots, tried windows xp boot cd, tried tool cd called the ultimate boot cd.

 

Nothing works it recognizes the the cd writer dvd writer and hard drive, it then goes on to verify dmi pool i think it is then i tried to load a xp which didnt work, tried the boot cd and it didnt work tried floppy disk and it got as far as loading generic mouse drivers then froze, on xp it freezes on inspecting hardware configuration and on the ultimate boot cd it freezes half way through loading the maxblast 3 software for my hard drive.

Ive been able to get into dos with an old win98 boot floppy but thats it, while in there i did fdisk and got rid off the dos partition now i just have the linux partitions on there which it wont let me remove, now is my system not running because of the hard drive or because of my hardware configuration, in bios of kept almost all things default except one or two options im extremly confident ive done right.

[Angry_Games]

please check the rules and the Important Info threads stuck to the top of this section, paying close attention to the second post in teh 'critical' thread (about system specs in your sig).

 

this helps us tremendously to help you solve your issue if we can see what is in your system every time you post.

 

Be as thorough as possible please. Voltages, timings, settings, bios version. The more information you give us about the problem, and the more details about your hardware in your sig = more help we can give you.

 

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showpost.p...701&postcount=2

[guitarist]

Try pegging escape (vs delete) at the bios menu and double check boot sequence page-does look a bit different. If you've got crazy linux partition stuff use the hard drive manufacture's utility to squeegy the whole thing back to stock. Maybe try a different keyboard and USB keyboard/mouse may be disabled too. HTH.

[Guest Down1oader]

hard drive is now totally clean with no linux stuff or anything else, i unplugged the dvd rw so now i have

 

amd 3000 + stock cooler

x850xt pe in pcie 1

audigy 2

karajan module plugged in

seagate 120gb hd ide channel 1 master

liteon 52x cdrw ide 2 master

1x 512 stick in orange slot 2 ( second from top of board )

 

in bios i have changed ram to 200mhz everything else is auto

set boot sequence to cdrom floppy hdd

enabled usb mouse

turned off ac97

and i think everything else is default which is auto

 

i put the xp sp1 cd in it boots from the cd it says " now inspecting current hardware configuration" cd spins up really fast reads a bit then freezes on that screen cd spins down.

 

knoppix boot cd which should run straight from cd loads extremely slowly, when it gets to main knoppix gui it seems to freeze with knoppix in the background.

 

ultimate boot cd loads fine, from the menu i choose hard drive tools, then i choose maxtor maxblast 3. It loads up then near the end of the software load sequence it freezes.

 

tried floppy boot disc, loads up loads drivers for cd drives the proceeds to load genius mouse driver then freezes.

 

win98 old boot disk loads into dos fine but thats it, fdisk seems to work too.

 

i have tried all the procedures above without th eusb mouse plugged in haveing just the keyboard ps2.

 

on the m otherboard since im using only one graphics card do i need to change any jumpers on the motherboard as i have change none at all so far, graphics card is in pcie 1.

 

forgot to mention i have also set vdimm to 2.9 as this is what my memory supports

 

help!

[red930]

help!

Read the stickies(critical) at the top of the forums.

 

Clear CMOS and load BIOS defaults.

 

Make a memtest boot disk and qualify your RAM one stick at a time. When the test completes several passes for each stick you can start testing in pairs.

 

Once you've done this we can better diagnose your problem.

[deadseasquirrel]

i put the xp sp1 cd in it boots from the cd it says " now inspecting current hardware configuration" cd spins up really fast reads a bit then freezes on that screen cd spins down.

 

It looks as if you and I are both having the exact same problem.

 

The only component we share is the SLI-D. Mine's Rev A01. Either way, I had planned on trying to get mine to work by abandoning the SATA and going with an old PATA, but your PATA isn't working, so that kills that idea for me.

 

There's gotta be something we're both doing (or not doing) with our SLI-Ds.

 

edit: I have done what was just suggested above too-- ran Memtest for each stick individually and together as well, cleared CMOS numerous times, tried all 3 BIOSes. Plus, this ram worked fine in the Ultra-D I built. I don't think it's the RAM.

[Guest Down1oader]

hmmm nothing works, i corrected an error i made earlier i have a seagate 120gb ide lol i have 3 other hard drives i havent put in yet 2 being sata.

do you think it could be something to do with our hard drives being seagate? i say this because i know there are problems with the western digitals, also do you know if i have to change the sli jumpers for a single pcie card as the others replying just keep telling me to read stickies which ive done.

[Guest Down1oader]

just tried my maxtor ide with no difference tried seagate on cable select with no difference

[deadseasquirrel]

I hate to say it but, seeing that the few of us are having this exact issue, and we all seem to have pretty different hardware (the DFI being the only link), I think it's a board issue. I mean, I have tried almost every single component in another DFI system and it ran fine. The only parts I haven't checked in another system are my PCP&C 510 SLI, and the Seagate SATA.

 

And I don't think it's the Rev. A01 vs. A02 thing because this problem has shown up on both. So, it's either something that needs to be fixed outside of Rev A02 or it's a config issue that we can resolve in BIOS.

[NEOAethyr]

This sounds simple but have you guys tried clearing the dmi pool :.

Some cards are stupid and don't re-configuer themselves correctly.

That is, you bootup with a card in say slot 1, then take it out and put it in slot 2.

It'll still be setup like it was for slot 1.

 

Maybe a better example, some cards are built were they take up certain resources when there in a certain slot, now when they're in another slot the're meant to take up diff resources then the other slot.

 

Now sometimes a card will behave like it's in another slot, say slot 1, while it's actually in slot 3 or something.

To get rid of that kind of prob, to make it reset, for pci cards (we don't use isa cards anymore lol, otherwise this would be easy, still is though ), you need to clear the dmi pool.

 

It's an option that's in about every bios I've seen, I can't use modbin on the new nforce4 dfi bios though I'm afraid so I can't just look it up.

 

Anyways it should be under somthing like:

PnP/PCI Configuerations

 

In this section of the bios it should have an option called:

Reset Configuration Data

 

It should have 2 settings:

Disabled

Enabled

 

Now disabled is normal use, enabled will reset the dmi pool.

Some bios roms will automativly put this setting back to disabled after the dmi pool is rebuilt, ie reboot.

Other bios roms won't though, like my board, the nf2 lanparty ultra b.

For roms like these after a good reboot, go back into the bios and change it back to disabled.

 

I dn what you did to bring out a prob like this, but it really sounds like it's the prob.

I hope it helps .

[Guest Down1oader]

ok i just reset cmos and changed boot screen logo off setup boot cd first and then tried what NEOAethyr just said and now windows xp is actually starting to install!!!!

thanks alot neo

[NEOAethyr]

hehe , np

Glad you got it sorted out, now have your fun .