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Kath Stennett
My Dad has just built a PC based on the Asus A7N8X mobo. This is his first
build and seems to be fine except that he is having problems installing XP.
Unfortunaltely he lives a bit far away for me to visit so I'm having to try
to help going by what he tells me.
The PC POSTs OK - I know thats right as I have heard it say so when I've
been on the phone to him! BIOS recognises the presence of his hard disk
every time he boots up.
When running setup for the first time from CD this HD was formatted, it went
right the way through to 100%. Then some files are copied. At some point he
got a message about "ntldr" but after a reboot that message never recurred.
Some time after that he got an error message along the lines of "cannot find
hard disk". Now every time he tries to restart setup he gets this same
error. I suggested he enter the recovery console but he gets the same error
if he tries to do that too. He has checked the connections and the jumpers
etc and is pretty sure they are all OK.
Does anyone have any ideas for him to try or questions for me to ask him in
order to get to the bottom of this
Kath
build and seems to be fine except that he is having problems installing XP.
Unfortunaltely he lives a bit far away for me to visit so I'm having to try
to help going by what he tells me.
The PC POSTs OK - I know thats right as I have heard it say so when I've
been on the phone to him! BIOS recognises the presence of his hard disk
every time he boots up.
When running setup for the first time from CD this HD was formatted, it went
right the way through to 100%. Then some files are copied. At some point he
got a message about "ntldr" but after a reboot that message never recurred.
Some time after that he got an error message along the lines of "cannot find
hard disk". Now every time he tries to restart setup he gets this same
error. I suggested he enter the recovery console but he gets the same error
if he tries to do that too. He has checked the connections and the jumpers
etc and is pretty sure they are all OK.
Does anyone have any ideas for him to try or questions for me to ask him in
order to get to the bottom of this
Kath