need some help...

[VooDoo-]

ok, so the video card finally came for the 2nd system i'm building .. and i go thru the bios and a few thigns are screwy..

i thought the hard drive was gona be a pain in the ass .. but actully thats just fine .. it's the cd drives

on the bios screen it says the burner is set to primary .. which it should be seoncdary .. and the dvd-rom just dosen't show up period.

ok ... my first question .. do you plug it into the primary or secondary IDE slot on the mother board?

and is there something to do with jumpers? because theres nothing on the back of the drives telling you where to put the if you need em..

and i'm using the ribbons the motherbaord came with that have CD-ROM on them ..

any help would be great ..

[VooDoo-]

nevermind .. i fixed it ... i looke at the jumpers on my computer and saw the diffrence

[VooDoo-]

ok .. now just befor it's about to install windows ..... it gives me an error saying it can't read the disk or the disk isn't valid (the windows pro cd)

well how did it get that far without reading being able to see if theres a disk in there .. it's obviously reading the disk and my version of windows is real .. anyone know whats up?

[Scott]

yeah i've had that problem before.. are you using the sata drives on this computer?

[Steve]

sounds like you need to install the SATA drivers.

you load them by pressing F6 just as win setup starts (the blue screen). windows asks if you need to load any drivers blah blah etc at the bottom of the screen.

you will need the sata drivers on a floppy disk.


you only find out if you didnt do this after the first reboot.

[VooDoo-]

i got past that .. it asks if you had any previous versions of windows so i put the old '98 disk in there and then the next screen i put the xp disk and it started to formate the hard drive and then installed windows...

now the only problem is microsofts retardedness..

i'm using the same windows i have on my system, the same cd, so when i went to activate it on the system i just built it said i used the cd key too many times.. so what happens when i go to formate this computer again?

[Scott]

call them to activate

[VooDoo-]

alright .. i'll try that tommorow .. but the last time they gave me crap about it

[Steve]

i had to call them up to activate one time, you should be able to use the buttons on your phone or something but it didnt work for me, so i got aperson online who did it np's

[Hellfighter]

i have some trouble with them in the pass but it always workout for me.

1-866-234-6020 in usa