P4P800-E IDE Drive and booting up HELP ME PLEASE

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I just got my board, hooked up my Hd from my old machine (Q-Fireball)
I tried it as Master Prim then as CS. I also have a DVD-Rom on
Secondary Master. I am running WinXP Pro, everything seems to go well
until the board tries to detect IDE drives, comes up with Bios not
installed, yet I can see the HD and DVD in my bios. After that screen
come up, it goes to MS's "did not shut down properly" screen and asked
how I want to boot into Windows...which ever you hit "safemode" or
"normal", it does a warm boot and I start all over again...

Any Help would be greatfully appreciated.
 
Check your bios settings for your hard drive and see if its set to enhanced
mode, or compatible mode. Since you are using Win XP, It should be set to
enhanced mode. Hope this helps. Oh, also, dont jumper the HD to CS, set it
to master.
 
I just got my board, hooked up my Hd from my old machine (Q-Fireball)
I tried it as Master Prim then as CS. I also have a DVD-Rom on
Secondary Master. I am running WinXP Pro, everything seems to go well
until the board tries to detect IDE drives, comes up with Bios not
installed, yet I can see the HD and DVD in my bios. After that screen
come up, it goes to MS's "did not shut down properly" screen and asked
how I want to boot into Windows...which ever you hit "safemode" or
"normal", it does a warm boot and I start all over again...

Any Help would be greatfully appreciated.
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you did a format and fresh install I presume...?

also chaeck the boot priority in the bios, but it sounds like a bad
setting or installation...try another cable just to be safe...
 
Op Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:46:36 GMT schreef ~hmmm~:
I just got my board, hooked up my Hd from my old machine (Q-Fireball)
I tried it as Master Prim then as CS. I also have a DVD-Rom on
Secondary Master. I am running WinXP Pro, everything seems to go well
until the board tries to detect IDE drives, comes up with Bios not
installed, yet I can see the HD and DVD in my bios.
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The P4P800 has two IDE-controllers: an Intel ICH5R and a Promise
controller. The main BIOS sees only the devices connected to the ICH5.
Since you can see your hd and dvd-rom in the BIOS, that means you've
connected them to the ICH5. The Promise controller has it's own BIOS, which
executes once the main BIOS is done. The message 'BIOS not installed'
simply means that the Promise controller can't find any devices (since you
haven't connected anything to it).

Since you're not using it, go into the BIOS and disable the Promise
controller (under Advanced / Onboard Devices Configuration). Not only will
the 'BIOS not installed' message disappear, but your computer will also
boot faster, because it will no longer look for devices on the Promise
controller.

You should probably leave your hd set as Master. CS (Cable Select) should
only be used if you're using a special hard disc cable that supports CS.
After that screen
come up, it goes to MS's "did not shut down properly" screen and asked
how I want to boot into Windows...which ever you hit "safemode" or
"normal", it does a warm boot and I start all over again...

Any Help would be greatfully appreciated.
Click to expand...

You did a new install of Windows, didn't you? If not, Windows probably
won't work, because you then have a Windows that loads all the drivers for
the hardware in your old computer and none for the stuff in your new
computer.

Wim
 
Op Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:46:36 GMT schreef ~hmmm~:


The P4P800 has two IDE-controllers: an Intel ICH5R and a Promise
controller. The main BIOS sees only the devices connected to the ICH5.
Since you can see your hd and dvd-rom in the BIOS, that means you've
connected them to the ICH5. The Promise controller has it's own BIOS, which
executes once the main BIOS is done. The message 'BIOS not installed'
simply means that the Promise controller can't find any devices (since you
haven't connected anything to it).

Since you're not using it, go into the BIOS and disable the Promise
controller (under Advanced / Onboard Devices Configuration). Not only will
the 'BIOS not installed' message disappear, but your computer will also
boot faster, because it will no longer look for devices on the Promise
controller.

You should probably leave your hd set as Master. CS (Cable Select) should
only be used if you're using a special hard disc cable that supports CS.


You did a new install of Windows, didn't you? If not, Windows probably
won't work, because you then have a Windows that loads all the drivers for
the hardware in your old computer and none for the stuff in your new
computer.

Wim
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Thanks to all, yes I did try to install a HD that was already loaded
with a previous OS, and I had to fdisk, and reinstall. Thank Gawd for
DVD burners,

Again, Thanks
 
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