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I've had my new build (spec in sig) for a month or so now and so far had absolutely no problems with it. Installed XP fine, then I got a copy of Vista and tried to install that but it wouldn't boot from the disc, I could only install from inside of windows. I thought it was some weird quirk of Vista, installed from inside XP and let it do its thing.
Yesterday I bought a new hard drive to act as a storage drive so I plugged it in, assuming Vista would recognise it and I could simply format it. The BIOS saw the drive so I thought all was well, got into Windows and the drive wasn't there, went into disk manager or whatever it's called, initialised the disk, tried to reformat and the computer froze. Ended up having to hit the restart button, tried to do the same thing and the system locked up again.
In the end I thought I'd just reinstall the OS again, put my XP disc into the CD drive... and the computer won't boot from the disc. I Checked all the cables, but nothing has been touched since I put the machine together and everything seemed fine. Once I get into Windows it can see disc and read it, so I'm not sure why it can't on startup (and yes, the CD drive is set as the first boot device in the BIOS).
To top it all off the system is getting worse by the minute, it keeps locking up and blue screening (with the stop error: kernel_data_inpage_error 0x0000007A) which has never happened before... and wouldn't be a problem if it was let me boot from a disc!
I'm running an asus p5n-e sli with the original BIOS (0202 I think), and I'm not sure if I can update it anyway, since it won't let me boot from anything other than the HD. I've tried resetting CMOS and tried hitting F8 on startup to get into the boot menu but had no luck.
Anybody got any ideas?
Yesterday I bought a new hard drive to act as a storage drive so I plugged it in, assuming Vista would recognise it and I could simply format it. The BIOS saw the drive so I thought all was well, got into Windows and the drive wasn't there, went into disk manager or whatever it's called, initialised the disk, tried to reformat and the computer froze. Ended up having to hit the restart button, tried to do the same thing and the system locked up again.
In the end I thought I'd just reinstall the OS again, put my XP disc into the CD drive... and the computer won't boot from the disc. I Checked all the cables, but nothing has been touched since I put the machine together and everything seemed fine. Once I get into Windows it can see disc and read it, so I'm not sure why it can't on startup (and yes, the CD drive is set as the first boot device in the BIOS).
To top it all off the system is getting worse by the minute, it keeps locking up and blue screening (with the stop error: kernel_data_inpage_error 0x0000007A) which has never happened before... and wouldn't be a problem if it was let me boot from a disc!
I'm running an asus p5n-e sli with the original BIOS (0202 I think), and I'm not sure if I can update it anyway, since it won't let me boot from anything other than the HD. I've tried resetting CMOS and tried hitting F8 on startup to get into the boot menu but had no luck.
Anybody got any ideas?