BIOS Setting Asus P5Q PRO

Dblaze

Dblaze

Dblaze

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I cant get past the windows Setup page ( Setup is starting windows ) there must be somthing wrong in the BIOS setting cant figure it out :confused:
Or has the HDD sata cable got to be in the white or orange socket not one of the red ones ?
 
Hey Dblaze,

sounds like your in need of assistance! :)

You have some nice kit there so with a little patience you should get this hiccup sorted! :cool:

I noticed you made two threads asking for help with the same problem which is generally considered a no-no! :(

P5Q PRO windows setup problem

That aside can you list the hardware you are using and whether its new or used?

The SATA cable should be plugged into one of the INTEL Red sata ports for your Boot/OS drive. Have you reset the BIOS and can you see the hard drive listed in the BIOS?

Is both the hard drive and the sata cable known working good?

Could even be an unstable machine (8GB Ram?), but more likely a dodgy BIOS setting, bad drive or bad cable.

Post back the details and lets see what we can do for you! :D
 
Sorry for posting twice im panicing.

All new as follows:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 LGA775
Asus P5Q Pro Intel P45
Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB
Kingston HyperX 4GB
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler
Pioneer DVR-216DBK 20x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter
Asus GeForce 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3

Hdd etc showing in bios so cables seem fine its just booting back into windows to complete installation.
 
Hey Dblaze,

can you paint a picture of whats happened so far please?

Sounds like you whacked your build together (exciting times) connected everything up, inserted your Windows disk and got straight into the installation process, you saw your drive in a list, formatted it and then let windows get on with it. After a while the installation routine restarts the system and that's when you run into problems? :confused:

What happens? does it just pause or?

If your running with a full [Auto] BIOS setup everything should be configured to work fine, the memory will default to DDR2-800 with slack timings and alls good?

Is there any chance you can download the WD disk Diagnostics (bootable .iso) and give your new drive a test, could be faulty!

Other than that as long as you have done a full BIOS reset I can't think of anything obvious apart from a semi-faulty SATA cable, maybe something to do with the optical drive being flakey (or its wire) or even perhaps you wired up some case cable headers the wrong way (i.e case USB ports connected to firewire port etc?).

It's just a process of elimination, trouble-shooting sucks but getting the problem sorted is a nice feeling! :cool:
 
I’m very sorry to have wasted your time turns out it’s a bad installation disc.
I didn’t spot this as it was happening at the point where it should restart I just started to panic & thought the worst.


Again SORRY !!!!
 
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