Can't get new PC to boot - period!

P4ULY

P4ULY

P4ULY

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My original thread can be seen here, near the bottom:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17837177

But I thought it was about time it was moved to a more appropriate area.

I have tried everything suggested in the orginal thread with no success.

My PC boots up, goes past the flash screen gets to the configure your RAID array utility, I wait while it skips that then it tries to boot and I get an error saying 'Disk boot faliure, insert system disk and press enter'

I have set my RAID not to be the boot drive and I have also set them to be the boot drives, at different times, and there is no change. I have tried putting my Vista disc in my Blu Ray drive, my new SATA DVD ROM and my old IDE DVD ROM and nothing has made any difference!

Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong? What to do next?

Any of you experienced guys near Brighton by any chance? This is doing my head in!
 
I've known PC's to do that if they have a USB stick or other storage device plugged in, regardless of whats set in the BIOS
 
I'm not sure where you're at here, are you trying to install vista on your raided drives? The Disk boot failure is then just telling you that your machine is looking for a bootable hdd drive and cant find one, without looking at your cdrom drive to boot into the vista setup - set all optical drives as the first boot devices (with raid last) and pop in your vista disk, the machine will then find the vista disc and ask you "press a key to boot from cd" (thats what it says in xp anyways) - press a key and you will enter the vista setup. If I'm not on the right wavelength here, apologies :)
 
No usb drive attached at all. And no other storage devices other than the hard disks.

Yep, I'm trying to install Vista onto my raided drives. I have tried setting it to boot from the DVD ROM first and it still doesn't find the disc (in all 3 drives). Even if I unplug one of the hard discs and remove the RAID it still won't find the install disc.
 
have you ever installed using the disk you are using before? Could be a faulty vista disc, do you have an old xp or other os disc you can put in just to see if it boots from the cd?

[edit] also, can you confirm that the optical drives are detected in the bios?
 
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I would go for simplest set up you can to start with i.e. raid + 1 dvd rom drive - if it works you can add later
 
Remove every drive except 1 optical.
Verify drive detected in BIOS, set to boot.
Attempt boot with random live CD from internet.
If success, try with vista cd.
If success, add hard drives
 
Paul. It's Alan from atl. Get my number off Nicky and i'll talk you through it. If all else fails i'll pop over and i'll see if there's anything i can do there.
 
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Alan, nice one cheers bud. Thanks for the advice so far too :)

Apologies for having to work with Nic! lol
 
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