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Sgt_Pepper

Sgt_Pepper

Sgt_Pepper

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Hi I've just put together a PC,

Asus P5E, E7200, WD640gb HDD, 2g pc6400 ram.

It turns on ok and lets me Instal Windows (XP), then when i try install the Motherboard CD after it shuts down to restart, it doesnt it open up a DOS like window with the following message writen in it.


FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.35w (Build 2035w-UNSTABLE, Nov 30 2005)
Kernel Compatibility 7.10 - WATCOMC - FAT32 support

Copyright 1995-2005 Pasquale Villani and the FreeDOS Project
NO WARANTY. Licensed under the GMU General Public License version 2.

C: HD1,Pri[ 1], CHS= 0-1-1, start= 0 MB, size= 31MB

then after a while this appeared under it:

Bad or missing Command Interpreter
Enter the full shell command line:
command.com /p /e:256

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)
 
try flash the BIOS to the latest version or if you aren't happy doing that then contact suppliers support line. Sounds like you've got a faulty BIOS loaded, but then im still a n00b :D
 
found this link

i think its just that your system is trying to boot from the motherboard driver cd (have you left it in the cd drive upon reboot?) and doesnt like it
 
Sgt_Pepper said:
Hi I've just put together a PC,

Asus P5E, E7200, WD640gb HDD, 2g pc6400 ram.

It turns on ok and lets me Instal Windows (XP), then when i try install the Motherboard CD after it shuts down to restart, it doesnt it open up a DOS like window with the following message writen in it.


FreeDOS kernel version 1.1.35w (Build 2035w-UNSTABLE, Nov 30 2005)
Kernel Compatibility 7.10 - WATCOMC - FAT32 support

Copyright 1995-2005 Pasquale Villani and the FreeDOS Project
NO WARANTY. Licensed under the GMU General Public License version 2.

C: HD1,Pri[ 1], CHS= 0-1-1, start= 0 MB, size= 31MB

then after a while this appeared under it:

Bad or missing Command Interpreter
Enter the full shell command line:
command.com /p /e:256

Any help would be greatly appreciated. :)
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It's when XP reboots after installing the drivers off the motherboard CD its trying to boot off of the motherboard CD. Eject it and try and boot again.

The error given seems to indicate that it can't boot the environment that should be bootable on the motherboard CD for some reason, probably due to an error in it's original authoring. You do not need this anyway so just boot XP again with out the CD in the drive.

You could change the boot order in the bios to be harddisk before CDROM but its quite often useful to have the CDROM first for checking out livecd's or booting off CD to fix Windows issues.
 
Cheers guys, it seems it was the Motherboard CD, Surprised i've never had that problem before, Re-installed XP 4 times for nothing DUH :)
 
doh. can't believe didnt think of that one. it always throws me problems with nvidia driver CD and esp asus ones which try to create a raid floppy disk if you leave it in. pain. glad to hear it works
 
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