- May 6, 2004
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Ok. I got back to my room on sunday, popped in the hdd I had used at home, and tried to boot up. Nothing! I decided the info on there wasn't too important so I wipe that hdd, and the second hdd, and start afresh.
Nada.
I recheck all the cables....everything's plugged in, in the correct order. I load the boot menu and try from just the hdd I didn't take......nothing still. (even a fresh install)
Then I get to the point where neither HDD is getting recognized by the bios (with all the cables still plugged in)
FRUSTRATION.
I don't touch it for a couple of days. Idea!!! I switch the hdd's physically and choose one master and one slave exclusively. Boot up.....Good. Fresh Install....slow but good.
Boot up new OS....
NOTHING!!!! ARRRGGGG.
Ok. Now here I am explaining my whole crappy mess. The Hdd's are correctly installed with a fresh copy of Win XP Pro. When I boot up it comes up saying "Verifying DMI Data Pool....." and stays there till the cows come home. (which they never do
Here's what I got.
150W PSU
Mobo: Believe to be a Tekram P6Bx-An
P3 500Mhz (don't know chipset)
various PCI cards + 64MB vid card in AGP
2 optical drives : Sony CD-RW CRX215E5 and a Compaq DVD-114MC (ser. TJEA099174WL
1 generic Floppy drive
2 Hdd's
Western Digital 12.9GB--WM911
Western Digital 8.5GB---WM907
456MB Various PC133 Ram (3 sticks)
I'd really like to get this computer up and running. And any questions you may have....Please either post here, pm me, or e-mail me at FineLine15@gmail.com
Thanks for your help!
Nada.
I recheck all the cables....everything's plugged in, in the correct order. I load the boot menu and try from just the hdd I didn't take......nothing still. (even a fresh install)
Then I get to the point where neither HDD is getting recognized by the bios (with all the cables still plugged in)
FRUSTRATION.
I don't touch it for a couple of days. Idea!!! I switch the hdd's physically and choose one master and one slave exclusively. Boot up.....Good. Fresh Install....slow but good.
Boot up new OS....
NOTHING!!!! ARRRGGGG.
Ok. Now here I am explaining my whole crappy mess. The Hdd's are correctly installed with a fresh copy of Win XP Pro. When I boot up it comes up saying "Verifying DMI Data Pool....." and stays there till the cows come home. (which they never do
Here's what I got.
150W PSU
Mobo: Believe to be a Tekram P6Bx-An
P3 500Mhz (don't know chipset)
various PCI cards + 64MB vid card in AGP
2 optical drives : Sony CD-RW CRX215E5 and a Compaq DVD-114MC (ser. TJEA099174WL
1 generic Floppy drive
2 Hdd's
Western Digital 12.9GB--WM911
Western Digital 8.5GB---WM907
456MB Various PC133 Ram (3 sticks)
I'd really like to get this computer up and running. And any questions you may have....Please either post here, pm me, or e-mail me at FineLine15@gmail.com
Thanks for your help!