Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI NF650i booting up issue help needed

Sturm · 9 Mar 2007 at 17:31

I put together my components and experienced no issues getting it to post or boot up and OS installed.
The issue I have is that when I try to change the boot order back to HD the system will not boot to windows.
It seems to only be willing to boot to windows when I have the boot device set to CD drive.

Set up is as follows
IDE1 Master Seagate 80g (Came from Old system and has Win XP installed) shown as C and D drives
IDE1 Slave Maxtor 80g (Came from Old system file storage) Shown as F drive
IDE2 CDRom shown as G drive
SATA1 SamsungSpinpoint 250g New drive with the fresh install of winxp home sp2 shown as E drive

RAM OCZ 677 special ops 2g in dual channel mode

CPU E6600 core2 duo

GFX 7900GS 256mb

All running at stock.

I have looked in the BIOS to see if there is any other HD options other than HD but didn't see any.

Would really appreciate if anyone has any ideas about this please.

Thanks in advance

decto · 9 Mar 2007 at 18:30

Have you tried the option above the boot order, I think it's called HDD priority. It takes you into a second level menu where you should be able to select which HDD it boots from when HDD is selected as the primary boot device.

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BUFF · 9 Mar 2007 at 19:47

if you installed the OS onto the SATA HDD with the IDE drives connected the installer probaly put some of the files onto the IDE drive.
Try installing XP without the IDE HDD drives connected & then connect them afterwards.

getcarter · 10 Mar 2007 at 04:18

im bashed, proper buzzing u know the score

getcarter · 10 Mar 2007 at 04:19

BUFF said:
if you installed the OS onto the SATA HDD with the IDE drives connected the installer probaly put some of the files onto the IDE drive.
Try installing XP without the IDE HDD drives connected & then connect them afterwards.

you shouldnt have too

BUFF · 10 Mar 2007 at 10:57

Correct you shouldn't have to but it's common on XP ...

smids · 10 Mar 2007 at 12:51

XP always puts the boot files on any IDE drive connected when installing on a SATA - it's just XP being a right turd. It's likely this is the problem.

Sturm · 10 Mar 2007 at 16:44

Thanks for the replies Guys.
Hoping for a quick fix I looked again at the boot order.

As was pointed by BUFF the resolution was to remove IDE HD and re-install.

Happy to report everything is now working as intended.

All that no remains is to strip out the windows carp and see about a little OC.

Many thanks again peeps