Cannot get my new PC working!

iamgud · 3 May 2006 at 18:26

I recently got my new PC from OCUK, and I my 9700GTX arrived today. as soon as I got infrom work I fired the baby up and it started working.

But when it tries to load the XP CD it says:

"DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT BOOT DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

Tried it with the 2k disc and same result.

It is a Dfi Expert and is set to boot from the CD. It spins and stuff so msut be working? One thing I have noticed is the cable that connects it is blue at one end, should this end be in the Motherboard or the drive?

Please help, I wanna play Oblivion at max settings.

iamgud · 3 May 2006 at 19:41

No IDE.

Just tried another DVD player and the same result, need another XP disc.

iamgud · 4 May 2006 at 09:31

Got another XP CD from my mate, gonna give this a go when I get home, fingers crossed.

iamgud · 6 May 2006 at 12:20

It gets weirder.

I got a good CD from my friend and it still wouldn't boot but atleast I got an error. "Cannot find NTLDR"

Anyway I had the RAM in slots 2 and 4, took the RAM in slot 4 out, and it booted!!!

So I have 1 stick in slot 2. (orange slot on a DFI Expert).

Installed Windows and all is good until I try and download the Nforce Drivers. Corrupted file apparently when I try and install. So I install from the CD and it is fine. Same happens for the Graphics drivers, however Firefox installs fine, Teamspeak has an error saying corrupted file also.

But I installed UT2004 from the DVD and it works fine, not that I can play it online as when I download the patch, guess what..... exact same thing.

So what the hell is up with this, I have tried several combinations of memory in various slots and it still does this, Windows has been reinstalled. But Installing stuff from the CD works fine.

I have tried both sticks in all slots and it either doesn't boot or does boot and does this.

Have also tried some old Ram and it does the same, but I cannot be sure this Ram is working 100%.

So what next.

Help, this is really crap, I spend 1.5k on a PC and I can't install anything. What I will try next is copying something to the hard drive and thenh installing, rather than installing direct from the CD and see if this works.

iamgud · 6 May 2006 at 14:35

Yes, the DFI Firewall is turned on. Will give this a go. Maybe it isn't the memory then as the mobo has a utility called Memtest86. ran this for ages, including test8 several times which is apparently the most stressful yet no errors.

Thanks for you help everyone, I will report back later.