What am I missing ? wont install OS

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:11

I put this under Hardware as this is a brand new build !

It gets the blue screen, the happy colourful one when installing Vista, the mouse pointer comes up and then nothing !

If I try XP it says can not copy to the drive ???

Asus P5k premium main board Q6600 proc, only got 2GB memory in at the mo

Have tried, two different SATA drives
One IDE drvie, Sata disconnected
IDE DVD drive the new one is SATA
Removing all the external USB etc ports from the motherboard.
Thats basically it
The graphics card is 7950gt and the picture is fine
BIOS picks up all the drives and CPU is at 23 c

What have I missed ??? Please help

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:20

new hard drives, and tried with all sorts of mem setups

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:21

Pea0n said:
Tried it with 2 stick or memory and settign the correct memory voltages in the BIOS?

- Pea0n

how do I know the correct vot ? I aint over clocker it, its all standard

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:24

I reset the CMOS and said something about NTLDR missing ?

edit: I know.. wrong boot

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:24

GarethDW said:
Have you tested the memory using memtest86+ and tested the drives using the diagnostic tools from the respective vendor?

No and no. The memory is brand new 4 seperate modules.

The hard drive one of them is brand new the other is out of my other system freshly formatted

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:41

left it on for a while and its jumped to the next bit. Seems to be installing very very very very slowly

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:42

GarethDW said:
Ah, ok... fair enough. What about the cables... have these been used in a different system without any problems too?

The cables I used first where bran new. I'm using old ones from my previous system.

Its moved a bit further the select location came up now its just saying please wait

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:43

just asked for my product key

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:44

ok its installing now.. copying files is ticked but its really really slow ?

Anyone any ideas?

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:47

still at 0% expanded

Sorry about the repeats its to show you the times and how long this is taking

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:48

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:53

Maybe its the 64 version then, I only installed in once before and it was quick"

Its at 62% now.. hopefully I can install the mainboard drivers and all will be well

Pimmo2000 · 7 Mar 2008 at 16:59

That'll teach me for getting a legit version lol