Problem booting new rig please help

PESolution

PESolution

PESolution

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Ok so all of my new parts arrived today so i started to make my pc. A couple of hours later i was done and ready to turn it on. I was asked to setup the BIOS as it was the first time so i did this n set the boot devies to my 1st SATA HDD then my CD/DVD rom drive second. Then when it went to boot my computer a got the error:

"Detect Drives Done, No Any Drives Found"

This was then followed with please select an appropriate boot device or insert bootable media and press any key or something like that. But i had got my drive selected properly in the boot options and i got my windows disc in. Anybody got any ideas?
 
Does your motherboard report that it sees the hard disk and the cd drive? If it does the next question is something SATA 2? If the hdd is sata 2 and the mobo isn't it can cause problems like the one you describe, there are usually jumpers on the hard drive to set it back to sata 1 operation, this may solve the problem and would have no speed impact.
 
Goods Shipped:
£26.95 x 1 - Scythe Ninja Plus Heatpipe CPU Cooler (Socket 478, 754, 939, 940,
LGA755) (HS-003-SY)
£214.95 x 1 - Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
(CP-128-IN)
£105.95 x 1 - G.Skill 2GB DDR2 NR PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit
(F2-6400PHU2-2GBNR) (MY-014-GS)
£47.50 x 1 - Western Digital Caviar SE16 250GB 2500KS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
(HD-046-WD)
£21.95 x 1 - Pioneer DVR-111DBK 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter - (Black) OEM
(CD-038-PO)
£47.95 x 1 - Lian-Li PC-7 PLUS Silver Aluminium Midi-Tower Case (No PSU)
(CA-038-LL)
£18.95 x 1 - Lian-Li PC-60/PC-7 Window Side Panel - Silver (CA-063-LL)
£27.50 x 1 - Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 80GB 800JD SATA-II 8MB Cache
- OEM (HD-023-WD)
£4.95 x 2 - Western Digital Secure Connect Serial ATA Cable (CB-000-WD)
£69.95 x 1 - Tagan TG580-U15 580W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent
PSU (CA-009-TG)
£219.95 x 1 - HIS ATI Radeon X1900 XT ICEQ 3 SILENT Heatpipe 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO
TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-053-HT)
£139.95 x 1 - Asus P5W DH Deluxe WiFi (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
(MB-152-AS)


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Thats all my stuff. I think everything is compatible.. This is my first build by msyelf though so it is possible i could have missed or dome something stupid :P

I think it detects them all yes, because when i go to select boot device priority it bring up my first SATA HD in the SATA1 slot and and it then says something ATAPI CDROM. So i think they are all plugged in right.
 
Ah hang on a second, that message may not be important because:

a) That motherboard seems to have at least 2 SATA controllers, so one of them will report no HDDs attached, especially if it is a RAID controller.
b) You havent installed a boot partition yet (ie you haven't installed windows)

You need to set your CD ROM as the 1st device in the boot list, not second, it will then detect your CD an boot from it, and start windows install.

Be warned, you will probably need a sata controller driver, it may have come with your motherboard on a floppy disk, other wise you need to dl it and put it on a floppy. Press F6 during install when prompted. Press S, then insert the disk and press enter, then install windows as normal.
 
i dont have a floppy (nor a floppy drive), and i think ive tried putting cdrom as first boot n it didnt work, but ill try it again in the morning if i get time b4 work, if not ill try it on the night.
 
I have already siabled the floppy controller, and yes i have tried it set as first device :(

It's weird, if i hit DEL to enter the BIOS setup as its starting up it will say "Detect Drives Done, No Any Drives Found" before it even gets to the BIOS screen. Which makes me think its not to do with the optical drive but i just don't know.

Ill be bak online tonight at 6 after work hopefully somebody got a fix by then :( thanks for all your rpelies so far.
 
sorry im a bit unexperienced in this side of computers. How do i do a CMOS reset? and can i update BIOS without a floppy drive?

Is there anyway i could get this error by misplugging in one drive or forgetting to to plug something in? As si say im a bit unexperienced and its possible i could have done domethign stupidly wrong.

When installing the SATA HDD's i just plugged them straight into SATA 1 and SATA 3 on the mobo (for some reason there was no socket to plug into). Ive never used SATA drives before so im nto sure if this is all that i need to do.
 
PESolution said:
sorry im a bit unexperienced in this side of computers. How do i do a CMOS reset? and can i update BIOS without a floppy drive?

Is there anyway i could get this error by misplugging in one drive or forgetting to to plug something in? As si say im a bit unexperienced and its possible i could have done domethign stupidly wrong.

When installing the SATA HDD's i just plugged them straight into SATA 1 and SATA 3 on the mobo (for some reason there was no socket to plug into). Ive never used SATA drives before so im nto sure if this is all that i need to do.
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It should be all you need to do. A CMOS reset should be described in the manual but it normally involves:

1.) Disconnect mains power

2.) Remove battery

3.) Move CMOS jumper to 'clear' position for 15 secs then move back to original position

4.) Replace battery

5.) Replace mains power and reboot

You should be able to do a BIOS update without a floppy drive- I think Asus offer a windows utility which will do this for you :)
 
myriad said:
Be warned, you will probably need a sata controller driver, it may have come with your motherboard on a floppy disk, other wise you need to dl it and put it on a floppy. Press F6 during install when prompted. Press S, then insert the disk and press enter, then install windows as normal.
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What if you dont have a floppy? windows at that point asks you for a floppy and not a cd. What is the way to install the driver from a cd?
 
Oh, I see what you mean. You would need to put the CD in a working windows installation and copy the correct drivers to a floppy disk. I thought you meant that you don't have a floppy disk drive in which case you would have to integrate the drivers into the windows CD :)
 
Have you got an old IDE drive that you can use? If you can get XP running on an ide drive, you should be able to get the sata drive recognised and then install XP on it.

With the Asus P5W, you can boot straight from the mobo CD into a DOS window. There are menu options to create the floppies needed for various sata/raid setups.
 
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si dont have a floppy drive... I could steal the one from my xcurrent computer hwoever. But where do i get the latest CMOS drivers. Sorry im so lost and stressed out all i want is my beast in full working order :P
 
also in reply to people saying do stuff whilst in the install. I cant get to the install thats my problem, it wont recognise anything bootcable, i set it up for my dvd drive and it wont pick it up. Im gona go try another version of windows
 
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