- Mar 10, 2007
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My roommate just received his parts today to which he constructed the new PC. He is still using his old HDD, PSU, and case, but he bought a new mobo, RAM, CPU, and GPU.
His new specs:
ASUS P5N-D Mobo
Wolfdale e8400 CPU
BFG 9800GTX GPU
OCZ Reaper RAM (4GB)
I am unsure of his HDD and PSU except for that he has a 75GB non-Raptor/Barracuda HDD and that he is still using his old XP from his HDD.
Anyways, when he first put everything together and started it up, it went directly to the BIOS. No Master or Slave Drive detected. So he took it apart again and checked the IDE cables to make sure they were all plugged in correctly. His new mobo came with two IDE ribbon cables, but he used his old ones instead. So he switched the old with the new and started it back up. This time, it went right to "Disk Read Error - Insert the disk into the drive" or something along those lines.
Since then, he has been trying everything he can think of except following what I advise - taking out everything that isn't working to see what is working (ie. his GPU and HDD).
Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? Better yet, does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I am buying/building a new gaming PC very soon and all of this has me a bit worried that I will run into the same problems as him.
His new specs:
ASUS P5N-D Mobo
Wolfdale e8400 CPU
BFG 9800GTX GPU
OCZ Reaper RAM (4GB)
I am unsure of his HDD and PSU except for that he has a 75GB non-Raptor/Barracuda HDD and that he is still using his old XP from his HDD.
Anyways, when he first put everything together and started it up, it went directly to the BIOS. No Master or Slave Drive detected. So he took it apart again and checked the IDE cables to make sure they were all plugged in correctly. His new mobo came with two IDE ribbon cables, but he used his old ones instead. So he switched the old with the new and started it back up. This time, it went right to "Disk Read Error - Insert the disk into the drive" or something along those lines.
Since then, he has been trying everything he can think of except following what I advise - taking out everything that isn't working to see what is working (ie. his GPU and HDD).
Does anyone have any ideas what could be causing this? Better yet, does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I am buying/building a new gaming PC very soon and all of this has me a bit worried that I will run into the same problems as him.