ok i've got a soltek k8tpro 939 mobo with a amd athlon 64 3500+ cpu, and two gigs of memory. the problems is that it won't boot.
it goes very slowly though the post routine, and then says "boot from cd" and then "boot failure please insert disk and press enter"
I have installed windows about five times and at the end of the setup up it boots and goes back to the same thing of asking for a cd. I know that the os is installed on the hard drive because on subsequent installs, setup announces that there is already an os present on the disk, so it seem like all i have to do is to get it to boot off of the hd. I have been into bios and set the boot order to floppy, cdrom, hdd. i even tried to set it as floppy , hdd, hdd, but still it tried to boot on the cd.
any suggestions?
dan
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Jump to PostHi dandimmit,
I've had a look at your motherboard manual, and in addition to the 'Boot order' setting there is also another setting where you choose 'hard drive priority'. It's on the Advanced Menu, and its described on page 59 of your motherboard manual. If you have this set …
Jump to PostIf you installed Windows with the SATA and RAID options enabled in BIOS, your system is likely to be having all sorts of confusion looking for them when it starts up. I'd be installing fresh with those options disbaled, and the motherboard configured for only IDE drives. You should not …
Jump to PostYep. When you get to the section in the installation troutine where you are asked which partition to install Windows to, choose to delete the existing system Partition(s) and create a new one in its place. Install Windows to that, and all should be well.
Jump to PostDoes this occur after you've gone through the process of installung Windows, copying Windows files etc, and then the system reboots? Or does it occur before the Windows installation process?
If the former, it could well be that your system is set to only boot from CD during the …
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