- Dec 7, 2004
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- Overview of the problem
Same as title, won't boot up. So I ran out of HD space and made a quick trip out to BestBuy and picked up another SATA drive. Installed the new drive in the PC and now it will not boot.
- Full description of the problem and symptoms
After installing the drive the PC will turn on, I get lights, fans, DVD and Original Hard Disk spool up. It will give the single beep when it gets power, however it will freeze on the MSI MOBO screen and won't proceed to boot at all. I don't even get to the RAM load screen so that I can enter BIOS.
- Did it work normally at one time, or has the problem always existed?
Just happened now
- Is the problem consistent and repeatable, or entirely random, or semi-random?
Consistent and repeatable on every startup.
- I already tried these steps:
Took out the new SATA drive and still wouldn' t boot from the old drive. I took out the old drive and tried booting straight from the new drive and same symptom.
- My software:
XP SP2
- My hardware
- MSI K8T Neo
- AMD 3400+
- BFG Geforce 6800 vanilla
- 2 Sticks of Crucial 512mb Ballistix, 1 stick of Corsair 512mb
- Antec 480w True PSU
- Original: WD 74gb Raptor
- New: WD 320gb Black SATA
- Other information that might be relevant
When we first set up the computer there was something funky about the MOBO and the SATA/IDE boot order. If you had anything in the first IDE slot, which we originally had the DVD drive in, the pc wouldn't boot from the SATA drive. To correct the problem we had to move the DVD drive to the second IDE slot and reformat and repartition, reload XP onto the Raptor. Don't know if this is of any relevance, but I did also try disonnecting the DVD drive all together after the problem to see if it would force a boot from the raptor.