System wont boot into setup!

[MurdocSSG]

Just finished throwing together some spare parts I had in the closet, and old Asus A7V133, xp1600, 700mb of ram, an old DVD drive, 9gb hd and a gf2. When I config the bios to boot the CD drive first, after the system posts, it gets to the screen directly after the bios boot screen, where it shows the "PCI device listing...." table with the IRQs, and it just hangs. Its RIGHT before it should show "Setup is now loading" for the windows xp install.

What could my problem be?

 

[Boonesmi]

which ide port is the cdrom on? for the setup part you probably want to keep both the hdd and the cdrom off the promise controller ports, otherwise you will need to load special ide controller drivers at the start of the winxp setup

 

[MurdocSSG]

I cant even get that far. They are both on IDE 1. I tried splitting them onto two different cables on IDE 1 and 2 to no effect. Now they are both on the same cable going into IDE 1. Tried every bios setting, from default to turning off all uneccessary devices. Still nothing. Could it be a bad CD drive?

 

[DonS]

Murdoc,

I had similar problems with my a7v133. Both os's installed got corrupted and couldn't get it to install anything on a new hdd. Ended up replacing the board. Hope you have better luck.

Don S

 

[Boonesmi]

but which ide port 1 are they connected to? that board has a ide port 1 thats from the southbridge and a port1 thats from the promise controller

have you made sure they are hooked to the southbridge ide ports (they are the ones that are closer to the top of the motherboard right in line with the floppy port




if they are connected to the promise controller you need to make sure the jumper on the motherboard is set correctly, and its still prone to having problems with optical drives (ie. cdrom, dvd, etc)

 

[MurdocSSG]

Its on the southbridge, the one that says IDE, not ATA

I have two boards laying around, same thing is happening on both of them. I also have an Epox 133 board but the cooler I have doesnt fit on that one. Might have to go out and get a new cooler and just use the epox

 

[Boonesmi]

if the same thing is happening to both boards then i would start looking at the cdrom as maybe being the problem

 

[fslove]

Have you double checked to be sure the jumper setting (for slave/master) on the CD-ROM and HD's are set correctly. Improperly set jumpers will give the same problems you are experiencing.

 

[MurdocSSG]

Theres no jumper on the hardrive... The jumper on the cdrom is set to master and the hard drive is set to slave on the cable but theres no jumper physically installed on there. Its a very old drive and doesnt show the jumper layout positions. Where should I put it?

 

[MurdocSSG]

on the top of the drive it says "Jumper J50: Master/single- ON Slave- OFF"

does that mean take the jumper off to make it a slave?

 

[Boonesmi]

what harddrive is it?

 

[Boonesmi]

"Jumper J50: Master/single- ON Slave- OFF" kinda sounds like a maxtor drive
below are the jumper settings

http://www.maxtor.com/en/documentation/jumper_settings/style_a1.htm

 

[MurdocSSG]

thanks for finding that for me Boon

still hangs at the same spot. Im going to try swapping out the cdrom for another.

 

[Boonesmi]

no prob

sucks that its still not working